Top 5 Mispronounced London Underground Tube Stations and How to Pronounce Them | Improve Your Accent
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Stations mentioned in the video
1) Leicester Square /ˌlɛstə ˈskwɛː/
2) Southwark /ˈsʌðək/
3) Greenwich /ˈgrɛnɪtʃ/
4) Holborn /ˈhəʊbən/
5) Marylebone /ˈmarɪləbəʊn/, /ˈmɑːləbəʊn/, /ˈmarɪləbən/, /ˈmɑːləbən/
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In France, there’s a station called « Charles de Gaulle Etoile ». The real pronunciation is : « Le train a été retardé »
😂😂😂😂
If I ever travel there, I would prepare a cue card with names of places written just so that I could show people if I ever get lost in the country XD
lester skwair
suthuk
grehnich
holbun
maarlebone
that’s how most of us Londoners pronounce them all.
Yes.I see the letter "l" is there in Holborn and that is,in my experience how ,how most Londoner's pronounce it.But to be fare the chap in the video did say Holborn could be pronounced with or without the "l".
Since I've mostly only heard these words on radio, television or UA-cam and never seen them in print, my problem is matching the sound with the unusual spelling, a much easier task.
Rules how to pronounce english names for Tube stations or cities:
1. look at the word and think of how it would be pronounced if english had a consistent pronounciation.
2. swallow at least one syllable and if it is a long word up to the maximum to swallow three syllables
3. change the vowel sounds to a more comfortable level to pronounce.
Voila you are probably very close to a natives pronounciation!
Your the first person I've heard pronounce Marylebone almost the way I and everyone in the area called it growing up in NW London 'marraben'. But then I'm an old cockney :)
Southwark. I asked taxi driver to go Southwark. He couldn’t understand. No wonder it was totally different than what I thought it was supposed to be pronounced. Suduk. Wow. This is mental. Never expected to pronounce it that way. Thank you for making this Video. !
Good to know !
Greenwich is easily mispronounced by non-native speakers!
And they think it is a city.
Thank you. This is really useful.
Omg this is a fantastic tool! Soooo useful! Thank you.
very useful! Especially for ppl like juz arriving in London
Could you do a video showing how some of the city or town names should be pronounced? Colchester is often mispronounced.
Thank you for using the IPA!!!
I live in Holborn n idk how to pronounce Holborn so thanks x
You have some real problems here
I lived in London for nearly 10 years, and it was until 4th year that I thought Shepherd's Bush is pronounced as SheFFerd's Bush.
Well I let you imagine the face of the person when I asked my way to Claffam Junction 😅
And I believe you will find that was is pronounced wasn't !!
I love your videos!! :)
Your tube station pronunciation tool rocks! Although I'm a Native American English speaker, some tube station names are hard for me to guess how they sound, but I won't be guessing anymore. Thanks!
Yes , two Nations divided by a common language.
Just in case that was lost in translation it's what us Brits call humour !
thank you that your inspiring to curiosity
excellent
so helpful!
This is too good! Up you go.
I'm glad I don't have to go to Marylebone, because I'm still not sure hove to pronounce it :)
I've always said Mar-le-bone , im from the Midlands though. Never heard it said with a bun at the end to be honest.
Having lived in London for a few years and mastering the majority of the tricky names, Southwark still got me. The rest were too easy.
For many years I mispronounced greenwich, thnx
A good general rule in English that I have used when teaching is, if in doubt, shorten (clip) the vowel sounds. So 'Mary'l'bun' is better than 'maar-lee-bone', for example, and 'Lesta Square' is better than 'Lye-sester-square'.
In Leicester you're not only clipping vowels but also completely deleting a consonant, so I don't know but it doesn't seem to work (I'm just exposing my doubt, so please illuminate my ignorance if I'm wrong)
As an Eastender - I find most have problems with station names Plaistow and Becontree.
LOL! Why is there a gap between the train door and platform edge at British train stations? 🤔
I've always pronounced 'Marylebone' as 'Marl-re-bon' or 'Marl-re-buhn', with a schwa sound in the last syllable.
greenwich village in manhattan as well
Can you please add the elizabeth line to the website?
Wow. I knew Greenwich (GMT), but as an American a lot of these are kind of a shock. Of course you already know about American English’s bias towards pronouncing all syllables in words very clearly, so all these “slurred”/“shortened” pronunciations are really weird.
Trying to get to Ewell, noone had any idea where I was talking about 🤣 "Ule"
The tool?Just listen to the announcements on the Tube..."The next station is...."
So the e and w are cut out.
The funny (and confusing for non-natives) thing is that whoever designed the automated voice announcement system, that's now used at most UK train stations, didn't program the computer how to pronounce the station names. This seems to be a countrywide phenomenon. You go to any station in the UK and listen to the computer-generated voice announcing (and mispronouncing) the station names. My favourite one at my local station is Birmingham New Street, which is abbreviated in written form as B'ham N. St.
And so the computer announces it as 'Bh ham enn saint' or 'Bee-ham enn saint'. Confusing or what? LOL!
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Very cute
sounds to me wtf England
In Rome there is this station called "Lepanto" and everyone mispronounce it!
They say "Lepànto" but it's actually "lèpanto"
Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed that one. That doesn’t seem to follow the normal rules I’m used to with Spanish or Italian.
@@nerysghemor5781 It's not Italian, Lepanto is the Venetian version of Ναύπακτος in Greece, where the most famous naval battle between European Powers and the Ottoman Empire took place in 1571. One of the three key battles that prevented the Ottomans from conquering our continent, back then.
@@lucacontini1906 That explains it!!!
I only have one question: why? 😂
Why waste letters putting them in words if you're not pronouncing them?
I don't know what are you saying because i'm sleepy but you are cute
What about St Pancreas? 😉
01:16
Wish British English were consistent with its pronunciation/spelling rules.... Wishing for the impossible, I know colonel (pronounced kernel some efin how)..
Is this because they're ancient names and aren't pronounced like current English is?
Cutty Sark
marla bone
I don't get Americans mispronouncing Greenwich -- it's a very famous area of New York City as well as the original place in London
it's Greenpoint, not Greenwich, you moron!
As you say, Marylebone is the one in which Londoners have a variety of pronunciations - I say "marry-le-bonn".
Oh my gosh I am.... Pretty shocked!!!!!!!!!!
Why put letters in the words if you're not gonna say them
01:40 I think"Marble" would be the correct pronunciation of Marylebone.😃😁
Americans have troubles with them too! I once found a village in the Midlands which was written in like 13 letters and it was one or two syllables at most
I already knew all the pronunciation and I'm not even British. Guess It travel much
As a British, I have been pronouncing all of these wrong, my excuse is that I am from Kent, and never go to London often lol
No right or wrong way to say Marylebone
Change the name of the station with a new simpler one.
Maybe I'll just learn to speak american lol
North or South American?
American is just English that's been messed up !
They should put IPA under every English words. English spelling is useless regarding showing the pronunciation.
and this?
it's Marylebone! not marliabon!
it's Totten'ham! not tottinHAM!
it's leicester (lester) Square! not
leysester or lychester Square!
it's trafalgar Square! not trafaulga
Square!
hotel? trivago Square?
Not our fault your spelling is inconsistent