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King Boomer's Reaction and failed attempt at pronouncing names of towns and cities in the United Kingdom. ENJOY!
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"Derby". The "er" was originally pronounced as "ar" in Olde English. Before America was invented.
America .. Britain's worst ever invention.
Are you sure?
Like Hertford.
In Olde English it was spelt as 'Darby'.
And defending folk from there. It is ALUMINIUM not ALUMINUM.!!!!!
06:30 - "In 1846, British tobacconist Philip Morris opened a shop on Bond Street, London, selling tobacco and rolled cigarettes. After his death from lung cancer in 1873, his brother Leopold and widow Margaret continued the business, growing it and opening a factory on Great Marlborough Street, London, from which the name was taken" and adjusted so the Americans could pronounce it 😁😁
It's not just Derby, there's Hertford, Berkshire, and so on.
Also the clerk in a court.
As someone living in Worcestershire... Worcestershire sauce comes from the UK county of Worcestershire and it's pronounced as we would say the UK county. Often people call it Worcester sauce because it's shorter.
Have heard Americans pronounce where im from wrong aswell, Portsmouth, but its pronounced "Portsmuth". They also pronounce the name of our neighbours Southampton incorrectly, its actually pronounced "Shithole".
What do you expect from a Labour council?
Good one 🙂
@@TheT0nedudeAnd the tories have done so well for the country in the last 14 years, huh?
Ask the folk from Skelmanthorpe how they pronounce it!
Shat
@@CaptainBollocks.... indeed but labour are actually worse than Tories on a city level even than at national level. Most Tory councils are a bit better than the clowns in govt. Nevertheless vote REFORM UK, let's get some Reform councils in the future...
You have to remember that a lot of places are named from French,Anglo Saxon and Viking speech. A lot of places are hundreds of years old.
Many years ago a sweet eager American asked me for directions to Bacon and Ham Palace! Or so it sounded to my British ears! Absolutely True!
Tell me you directed them to the local butty shop 😂
No she sent them to eggsitter
@@Raynard666 Very droll
@@Raynard666 Very droll
@@Raynard666 lol
You can fight back as much as you want.
Just remember it's our language.
How we pronounce and spell things is the only correct way.
Whatever you do differently is your own issue 😆 🇬🇧
You leave those Aymerrycans alone 😆
@@straightouttacornwall 😆 🤣 😂 👍🏻
@@straightouttacornwall
Is that an American version of a Jerry Can ?
Go on lad
Go on lad
"Happisburgh" prounounced "Haze-bruh" is my favourite and gets missed off these lists too often. It needs including before it disappears into the North Sea.
Yeah the guy reminds me of places in Shetlands called Twatt
Definitly 👍🤣
Lots of funny names near me, not that I laugh at them because I’m used to them it seems normal! 🤣 Like Butt Hole Lane, until people in the area changed it because of all the tourists coming to have their picture taken near the street sign! 😂😂
Now that is funny ,but possibly lost on our American friends lol.
Place in Yorkshire called Shat🤔
@@martinburke362Yeah but officially it's called Sheffield.
😂
King Boomer: the only American who can pronounce Worcestershire Sauce!
Well done, mate!
NOT "Wash-your-sister sauce" 🤣
It was a bit wrong but the best effort
I know many Americans who can pronounce it, just not the first time they see it written.
Even as an English speaker Worcestershire Sauce is a bit of a mouthful to pronounce. So I usually say Wooster sauce.
@@limpetcarre1139 ... Me too, lots of people do.
Dog says, I was having a great day until I was awoken by a Muppet!!!
There's a Jay Foreman video that explains how these pronunciations came about.
His Majesty has watched it. He said so at the start of the video.
This had me thinking of Al Murray, and his pronunciation of Alberquerque! Also Arkansas used to catch me out, till a certain someone made it famous, so it's not just UK place names.
There's a town in New York state that I once went to, called Poughkeepsie. I would have struggled if my American friends hadn't told me how to pronounce it. So, yes, you're quite right.
@@iannorton2253 P-kip-see
French Connection “……picking your toes in Poughkeepsie “
@@iannorton2253 P-kip-see makes no sense.
Heh, yeah. Doesn't help that Kansas is pronounced how it's spelt while Arkinsas isn't.
The double LL in Welsh, doesn't have an English equivalent. The lady in this managed to pronounce it very well. I once met an American who had a Welsh heritage and his family were from (as he said it) "Clanicly". It took me a while to realise that he meant Llanelli.
The air is expelled sideways towards the cheeks, like how an 'f' or 'th' feels but the air passes over the sides of the tongue and towards the side-teeth.
There's nothing like it in any language, as far as I know.
It's one of those sounds that you need to hear repeatedly to learn it.
@@PedroConejo1939 It's very unique, absolutely.
She absolutely butchered Pontypridd though!
Ll is tongue against the teeth, top row diagonal, and blow! Ish…
@@bucklberryreturnsWhenever I hear it it sounds more like "lh" to me.
"Wuss-ter-sher" (Worcestershire) is the county, "Wuss-ter" (Worcester) is the city. I live three roads away from where the sauce factory is!
Great vid as always Boomer, but this one had me raging when he said British English. It's just English or American English.
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Marlboro cigarettes were named for Marlborough, in a roundabout sort of way.
The cigarettes are named after the factory in NY opened by Philip Morris USA when the Philip Morris brand opened up in the US. The brand was formerly based in the UK with their main factory on Greater Marlborough Street, which the factory in NY was named after.
The street was named after John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (no prizes for guessing his most famous modern relative), and his title obviously came from his dukedom of Marlborough, the place.
Yep. defo 'Darby'...'Derby-shire' won't sound right
Try these from Norfolk UK. Wymondham. Blythburgh. Happisburgh.
I'm from derbyshire and a great pastime is listening to satnavs pronouncing derby (and other places with derby in the name eg derby road) in all manner of different ways
He has the Hollywood quippy humour you see in bad marvel movies. Where the dialogue goes on one line too long, and THAT annoying character has to have the last word.
Don’t be too embarrassed about getting the pronunciation of Anglophenia wrong,it’s a pun on the title of a British film. Quadrophenia
A film he should be watching, by the way.
Which itself is a pun on schizophrenia 💁🏻
There used to be an advert in England that said....Typhoo put the T(ea) in Britain, which begs the question....If Typhoo put the T in Britain, who put the c**t in Scunthorpe?
I've always thought "Scunthorpe without hopers" would be a good band name. It's clever and vulgar
locals?
Remember when Facebook kept deleting stuff to do with Scunthorpe because the algorithms thought people were swearing? That was a fun time.
@@xneurianx Also been similar stuff in regards to cigarettes and pork offal meatballs
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 True, it's a brave man who declares his love for Mr Brain's finest pork products online lol
The letters 'er' used to be pronounced 'ar'. About 1300, at least. Then came the Great Vowel Shift (from about 1350-1700) during when the pronunciation of vowels changed. But Derbyshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire (and words like clerk) were already well established, so the spellings didn't changed, nor did the way we say them.
Should have included Keighley, Slaithwaite and Chop Gate into the mix, those Yorkshire places are always tricky...
@@Matt_Mosley1983 'Chop Yat'
I live near Slaithwaite and locals pronounce it "Slawit".
@@MikeMuntDesign That's about right
In Kent we have Trottiscliffe, pronounced Trosley, and Wrotham pronounced Rootam
Mytholmroyd...sowerby bridge
My them royd and sew bee bridge)
( Milngavie...mulguy)
I was hoping for Milngavie. (Millguy) 😁
about derby, this is a region where the "e" is a "short a" and the "a" is a "long a" so, it makes perfect sense in that region.
Derby (THE Derby ) is one of the UK's most famous horse races. The Epsom Derby (Dar bee) run at Epsom Downs was named after the 12th Earl of Derby ( Edward Smith-Stanley) who inaugurated the race there in 1780. In other sports, a Derby is a sport involving two teams from the same area ( I don't know if it is the same in the US.)
Derby isn't Durby - there's no U in it.
Have I been pronouncing herby wrong?
@@Raynard666 Don't know I can't hear you.
@@peterholmes3011 That was the point I was bringing to your attention.
I’d imagine you’ll be hearing or seeing most of these names for the first time. Any British person claiming they got it correct first time is a liar
In Leicester, pronounced Lester there's a street called Belvior street, pronounced beaver street, then again, Leicester dates back to Roman times.
I should imagine Belvoir goes back to sometime post Norman Invasion. The street will have been named after Belvoir Castle. We also have Beauchamp College in Oadby, pronounced 'Beechum'
You're spot on with Gloucestershire. I hail from a town called Berkeley in Glos, which I gather is the source name for Berkeley, California, which you guys pronounce "Birkley," while we pronounce it "Barkley." But, then so did many of my grandparent's generation!
I believe that Worcestershire Sauce originated in the UK! 😉😉
There are oodles of towns/cities in the States, Boston, Birmingham, (New) York, that were named after place names in the UK, by the Brits, when we ruled the waves, rather than waiving the rules! 😉😉
We say 'clerks' the same way as Derby, too!
There are a number of place names in England that are spelled with an e but pronounced a, e.g. Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hertfordshire. Where we can we tend to miss out half the word. Worcestershire is pronounced Wustershur and Leicestershire is Lestershur.
Excellent you did get Gloucestershire right!
An American once stopped me in England and asked me for directions to Berwick, only he pronounced it Burrwick, I had never heard of it I told him and then it dawned on me when he said it was on the way to Edinburgh which he pronounced it as he saw it written, I told him it was pronounced Berrick and Edinburgh was pronounced Edinburra , he drove away looking so confused.
I live in Carlisle (carlyle) in Cumbria North West England. Some great place names
Torpenhow (Tropenner)
Pelutho (Peleter)
Are two of my favourites.
However the one that catches most non Scots out is the Borders town named Hawick.
Pronounced
Hoick
Keep having fun with language
I love it
a friend of mine drove to my dad's place to see me, he said he passed a place called Dang-er Gosolow, I asked him how it was spelt and then I replied "you idiot, that's Danger Go Slow!" he proceeded with "I thought it was strange because I spotted another sign that said Loose Chippings!"
I'm from Glasgow in Scotland. Americans often pronounce it as "Glass Cow", when it's more like "Glazz Go".
and Edinboro instead of Edinburuh
@@brianswift2706no, it's pronounced "Edinbruh" - or if you're from Glasgow ("Glesca") it's just "Embra"!
Loved this one buddy - How the Americans pronounce UK Place names is almost as hilarious as us Brits do. Stuart from Derbyshire (Darby) lol
Every place name that ends in "chester or cester" was originally Roman. Every place name ending in "by" was viking. Place names ending in worth were Anglo Saxon. Wales is a different kettle
of fish and worth a study on it's own. Ian Dee.
I just love how you paused to wake doggo up from a potential nightmare... A true dog lover!
My mother's father was English, one day he told me I needed to learn how to pronounce words correctly. The one that was pissing him off was Charmondly. As you would expect, I was saying Char Mondley. Its actually pronounced Chumly
If it's the place in Cheshire it is Cholmondeley and it is indeed pronounced Chumley..
To be fair, i worked with a girl who pronounced Derby as "Der-Bee". She was referring to the Liverpool Everton derby match. It took me a while to figure out what she was on about😅
"It's the derh-bee this weekend"
There’s a West Derby ( Darby ) in Liverpool, named after Lord Derby who has an Earldom based around there.
@@user-tv6mw8vx3w you might know Broughton hall high school, a girls catholic school in West Derby. I used to work in IT support at that place 👍🏻
@@user-tv6mw8vx3w that's correct, I used to work at a high school there. Broughton hall.
The Scouse dialect is boss la'
@@GraemeRoberts is right kid
Imagine being slightly dyslexic and being British - it can be a bit of a nightmare 😂 but thankfully I heard most of these place names as a kid before I saw them written down!!
You hear a lot of place names before you see them written down so quite often it's a best guess or putting two & two together the first time you see it and I can still get it wrong.
There was a tv documentary about the town near me & even though there were locals in it saying the name the narrator obviously hadn't watched it & went his own sweet way, drove me nuts 😂
You should really watch the SNL spoof, about George Washington talking to his troops. It shows how America messed up weights and measures, hilarious. I'm positive you will get a lot of enjoyment out of that. 🤗
That moment you said “f*ck” when you realised how to pronounce the channel name was hilarious! 😂
Two VERY confusing place names:
Even we English have different pronunciation of place names. Grosmont, a small village near Whitby in the North Riding of Yorkshire, is often pronounced ‘Growmont’ by Whitby folk and ‘Grossmont’ by those who live there.
Similarly, a small town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Slaithwaite, is usually pronounced ‘Slowwit’ (‘ow’ as in ‘ouch’) or as it’s spelled ‘Slaythwaite’.
My home town is fairly simple, Bolton, in the historic county of Lancashire, northwest of Manchester, UK, is pronounced ‘Bowltun’ and the nearby town of Bury pronounced ‘Berry’.
Regional accents are as varied as those in the USA. John Speed (1552 to 1629) was a cartographer who produced maps of old roads and turnpikes (you still use the word) for coach drivers and other travellers. He rode around, asking locals details of place names. Chorley, a town north of Bolton, was actually pronounced (in a strong Lancashire dialect) ‘Charley’, so appeared as such on his maps.
I read (in the JENNINGS books) where a teacher asks where missing keys are. He is told "Darbishire" (the name of a kid) but hears it as Derbyshire.
My fisheries lecturer, who was Welsh, would call 'Aberystwyth', 'Aberwristwatch', as a way of poking fun at another college. The -ough ending is a minefield with several pronunciations.
In Welsh, LL is *usually* made by saying the "L" sound at the same time as making a sound a bit like clearing your throat. Llannelli has two of these.
Our local Castle is in Belvoir which we pronounce as Beaver and love when non locals call it Bell Voir. Makes us smile.... it's a sort of Norman v Saxon thing.
"The name Derby was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The Domesday Book was written in Latin, and the Latin pronunciation of the word was “Dar-bee”. Sourced from the web. Not sure of the accuracy, but it is my hometown.
8:13 The whole Worcestershire sauce subject is kinda redundant because a lot of us just call that sause by the brand name "Lea and Perrins" anyway so ... 🤷♂️ "just pop a splash of Lea and Perrins in it!" 😂 😂
Plus proud Northerners prefer Henderson's anyway (and not just because it's cheaper, honest...)
@@donmongoose haha 😂 👍
Knaresborough has always been an interesting one to hear visitors try to pronounce.
i am from worcestershire and yep you pretty much nailed that!
Loughborough, or as a famous Australian cricketer once pronounced it, Lew,ger,ber,who,ger. When asked where they where staying. Think it was Ricky Pontin.
From the country who gave us Marnus Labuschagne.
Marlborough cigarettes were named after the place in England.
So every American is pronouncing it incorrectly 😁
There was some disconnect between people who were literate and those who lived in various places. There is a village called Bozeat, from where I met a couple of locals, and I don't remember exactly what they said it was, but it was a noise that started with a "B". Borzer perhaps.
You pronounce Worcestershire (as in the sauce) as wuster-shur
No you don't. Because Americans sound their RRRs like pirates. Tell them [WOUSS-ta-sha].
I've seen a few comments desribe how to pronounce Ll in Welsh, but just for some extra knowledge -> Ll in the Welsh alphabet is its own unique letter. Theres actually 29 letters in the welsh alphabet and that excludes some English letters like X and Z.
At present there is a film trending on you tube called Hope and Glory if you enjoy all things British you will enjoy this film. Good viewing. The Director of the film John Boorman was aged between 6 and 12 years of age during WW2 and much of it are his memories from that time. Really refreshing and as it is a child's view Truthful. If you do watch it appreciate your feedback. Thanks.
I look forward to you all coming to the UK whenever that may be. Would be ace to see a vlog of your trip too?
Some tricky place names in my county.
Wymondham (pronouced Windum)
Happisburgh (pronounced Haysburgh)
Postwick (Posic)
In the 90's myself and 2 American friends drove from Gladgow to Eedinburg for the Weekend. Had a lovely time.
Remember getting into a long discussion about living in the UK near Rayleigh, Essex and growing up riding Rayleigh bicycles, but being told by an American that it was pronounced "Raw Lee". Which didn't make any sense. Even if they do spell it as Raleigh, NC. That should still be pronounced as "Ray Lee".
Raleigh, as in Sir Walter, is pronounced Rawley. Unlike the Essex town, it has no Y in it.
Worchester sauce comes from England I love it
actual Welsh person here. Siobhan’s pronunciation of Aberystwyth and Pontypridd is wrong. The y in Welsh is an “uh” sound in a stressed syllable or when it the definite article or at the start of a word. The stress in Welsh is on the penultimate syllable so Aberystwyth is Aber Ystwyth (aberustwith) and Pontypridd is Pont-y-pridd (pontapreathe, so that it rhymes with breathe).
Her Llanelli was pretty good. It’s not a “thl” sound though it’s just an L, but it’s unvoiced, like T is an unvoiced D and S is an unvoiced Z and P is an unvoiced B.
Towns that end in Thorpe, or By were named by the Vikings. It means town and the name in front is that of the chap that named it….. eg Grimsby means Grims place.
There's a village in North Wales (with a small airport!) called Hawarden which is pronounced 'harden'.
One from near where I grew up was pronounced by some Americans as “bow-di-coat-ee”, and that’s the village of Bodicote.
(Bodicət)
Bodicote is a village adjacent to the town of Banbury. Which is not pronounced “Ban-buh-ree”.
(Bambree is probably the best way to say it)
Apparently this is a remnant from the introduction of the printing press. There was various pronunciations and spellings depending on local dialects/accents etc, but when the printing press came into existence and a standard spelling was implemented, it did not always match up with the pronunciation
Derby is named as it’s BY the river Derwent. Also probably a derivation of Derventio, the Roman name for it.
My fave near me is when Americans ask where the village of La-Cock is! Pronounced Lay-cock spelled Lacock.
The Derby originated at a celebration following the first running of the Oaks Stakes in 1779. A new race was planned, and it was decided that it should be named after either the host of the party, the 12th Earl of Derby, or one of his guests, Sir Charles Bunbury (the Bunbury Cup run at Newmarket would later be named in his honour). According to legend the decision was made by the toss of a coin, but it is probable that Bunbury, the Steward of the Jockey Club, deferred to his host.
BTW - The Earl of Derby was from Liverpool
ROTFPMSL when my home town came up ... LLANELLI! 🤣🤣
To get this is simple but not easy. But first a few things to note:
1. Welsh has its own alphabet, just like French, German, Greek, Russian et al
2. The alphabet uses Latin characters not graphic and some "single" letters are double characters ... dd, ff, ll ... that have different vocalisation than the same single character letters.
3. The Welsh alphabet has several letters NOT included in English ... No Z, no K (superfluous ... C is used and is always the hard k sound), no J (bit like Latin), "sh" in English is "si" in Welsh (i is pronounced as many Euro languages pronounce the letter i on its own) ... "e" as in "he", so shop is South Wales at least, is spelt as "siop" so "see op" or just shop with just a subtly different pronunciation from English; no V letter but single f is pronounced as English "v", no "q" or "x".
4. Welsh is a phonetic language but has many colloquial pronunciations of things. However, if you learn the Welsh alphabet and the pronunciation of its letters you will be able to read any Welsh word ... Guaranteed. And a Welsh speaker would understand you.
5. The tricky double "ll" ... Two characters, one letter, two distinct sounds ... JUST like the Spanish version - one letter, two characters, two sounds, as it IS related to the Spanish double "l" and also to the Cornish, the Basque, and the Catalan double "l". This goes back literally millenia to the time when a HUGE swathe of land from Wales, across into France and the Basque country and down through Spain had peoples who spoke much more similar language - Celtic and Gallic - than today.
There are many words even today that are VERY similar and almost identical to modern day French and Spanish both of the latter taking many of their words from Latin originals.
A quick example: window ...
Welsh - Ffenestr
French - fenêtre
Catalan - finistra
Spanish for fenestration ... fenestraciones
English - fenestration
German - fenster
All from the original Latin - fenestra
So, how to pronounce the double "L"?
First part - put your tongue in the position to make the normal English "l" sound, as in say, lovely. Do NOT move your tongue at all for EACH of the two sounds.
Now without moving your tongue, try to say "sh" so that air comes out one side of your tongue. Now stop saying "sh" and roll off into the normal "l" sound. It's simple once you practice and as it's the ONLY tricky letter in Welsh ... The rest are just variations of English sounds ... Once you master that and learn the sounds of the other letters ANYONE can then read Welsh out loud, off the page ... AND ... The name of the town in the picture at the following link. 😁😁🤣🤣 Enjoy.
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There a
To be fair, Ruislip was pronounced Roozelip in the 19th century, back when it was a small rural farming community. I was brought up not far from there and old people born and bred there said it that way. That pronunciation died out with them, sometime in the 1960s.
As a Scot, there were a few English towns listed there that I hadn't heard of and didn't know how to pronounce. There's a few towns in Scotland that people in England routinely pronounce wrongly on the news, as in news anchor, etc. There's also a few towns that we grow up learning how to pronounce as children in Scotland and are gobsmacked when we eventually see the spelling as they don't compute.
The 3 towns nearest me is 1. Greenock, who the English mispronounce routinely and 2. Strathaven and 3. Milngavie are the towns that we are amazed to learn the spelling of as the pronunciations are light years apart. As children we have to say it weirdly to get the spelling correct for both of them.
A village near the south coast, Puncknowle. Have a go.
'punnel'.
I was in my twenties when I realised that what I'd seen on the signs, and the village talked about were the same place. I lived less than 20 miles away, and no-one explained it. So what hope visitors?
try Trottiscliffe ... pronounced Trozlee, as a kid many decades before sat nav we used to misdirect people asking for directions our fav spot was next to the village road sign 🤣
I live not far from Frome and it's a beautiful town - sort of reminds me of a mini York. There are cobbled streets and a lot of art galleries and small craft shops and they have a great Sunday market. There's also a good venue called the Cheese and Grain where you can go watch a lot of the old bands and new ones too.
Also the double 'l' in Welsh names is pronounced by putting your tongue against the roof of your mouth and blowing down the sides.
Looking forward to the Welsh episode Boomer!!!
Try this one KB, Oswaldtwistle 😁
Some big important omissions frpm this list. Notably Edinburgh and Glasgow. Also, good luck with Cholmondeley, Woolfardisworthy, Dalziel, Culzean, Llangollen and Pontypridd!!
Omg she mentioned my home town Hartlepool lol 😂
Derby is a town that's a lot older than the US (600AD) and back then it was said differently.
I'm from a market town called Chorley here in the UK & we have a village near by called Euxton but it's pronounced as Xton. My uncle lives in the north east England in a town called Redcar but it's pronounced as Redker
The pronunciation of the word "Derby" comes from olde English when the town was known as "Darbye". The spelling changed but not the pronunciation.
As somebody who lives in Derbyshire, it's definitely pronounced Derby.
Thats before you get to Happisburgh "haysburah", Milngavie "mil-guy", Wymondham "windam", Kirkcudbright "kurcoobree", Scone "skoon"..
I've heard a few Americans call Worcester Sauce as "Wash Your SIster Sauce". It makes me chuckle.
and make her squirl like a piggy.
Haha you got it wrong pal 😂🙈👌🏻 0:45
I've noticed that some people from the north east of England pronounce Worcester as "Wooster" and England as "In-ger-lund". I've lived in the UK my whole life (nearly 40 years) and place names still catch me out. My most recent blunder = Tintagel in Cornwall. I said TIN-ta-jul when it's Tin-TAJ-ul. 🤦♂ Bloody nightmare!
The LL in Welsh is closest to a sort of long "Thl" sound but there isn't really a spot-on English equivalent. Back in the day I had a Welsh girlfriend and learned a fair bit of the language but she was never convinced I got some of those sounds right :chuckles:
Gateacre in Liverpool is pronounced "GATIKER"; Snowshill in Gloucestershire is pronounced "SCHNOZZLE"; Fazackerley In Liverpool is pronounced "FAZAKALY"' Kirkcudbright in Scotland is pronounced "KERCOOBREE"; Kirkaldy in Scotland is pronounced "KIRCUDDY"....and many others too
Nobody ever touches Finzean.
Good effort and yes he was pissing me off too 😂
My favourite pronunciation of Loughborough is when they call it Loogabarooga
I'll add one for you, a village near me is called Wybunbury, pronounced Win-bry.
There's a Reading in PA - guess where it's named after?
The Welsh LL is somewhat unique, in that there's no actual writable phonetic for it:
It's not THL; the tip of the tongue is not used, but the bit further back restricts airflow past the back of the hard palate - See? Simples {:0)