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Course: Accents and language differencesSection: Pronouncing UK place namesSubtitles: en

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wow no no

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way we we are we have learned English in

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O English that's what my father-in-law

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says it's not even English I think oh my

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God it's a

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joke

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um

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in

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his I don't

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know H is in Northern

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Ireland yeah hi welcome to a new episode

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of easy English today I'm currently in a

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bloody freezing cold monster in the

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northwest of Germany

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and I want to know can Germans pronounce

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complicated UK City and town names now

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before we get started if you're a

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regular viewer of easy English then

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quickly subscribe below and try to make

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a note of how many you pronounce

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correctly out of 10 let's

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go merly bone okay wow Mery Le bone Mery

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Le bone mer

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merily bone right mer bone um mer

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bone I'd say like meril bone m not bad

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yeah that was what I think about meril

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bone how would you

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say meril bone I

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guess do you know it I would say meril

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bone mhm

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H Mar bone yeah Mar bone yeah you know

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it yeah it's in London right yeah

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yeah

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mariban H not bad it's actually the

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closest everyone's got is maliban

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mar

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Durham

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Durham Durham durh

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Durham Durham Durham yeah Duram

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Durham durh Durham dur Durham Durham

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Durham yeah

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nice

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Durham Ah that's uh Durham Durham Durham

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yeah you this yeah I know Dar really

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yeah okay why um my dad went to darham a

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university or something the

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University

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is it like pronounced it's French

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B uh wait I mean it's french so you

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would say Buu I would also say Buu I

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don't

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know

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okay and how they

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like I don't know if probably some

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English man butcher friend likeo or

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something like that we butchered it even

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more oh even more okay wow

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blue

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bil I don't know if you think of the

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word

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beautiful buly yeah bu Buie all right bu

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yeah perfect yeah or buly yeah buly bu

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yeah bu go ahead uh bu yeah I don't know

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that's perfect sounds like French yeah

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yeah it for sure must be would you have

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said the

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same for sure for sure but I knew you

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know there there's got to be some kind

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of weird thing going on there you're

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doing well really

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well oh yeah I heard from it but I

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forgot about

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iter okay

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ler l Lester if you're into football

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maybe yeah leester no no leester

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ler laser yeah Lester Lester is

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Lester ler just Lester just Lester

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nothing

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else yeah Lester nice I I would say

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Le I just know because of the football

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club

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Leicester ah leester we do know leester

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City bro Leicester leester yeah

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Leicester

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that's river river them river

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river TS temps yeah TS

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yeah River Tams River TS yeah

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rivs River temps

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yeah

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I I listen to the British History

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Podcast as well so for example like

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Durham that's that's one I know from

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there what you think River

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temps and what you what are you saying

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um yes so I know it's not them so real

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temp yeah nice yeah

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okay a win is a

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win okay I think maybe you know this one

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people get this

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one or not and borrow

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eded yeah yeah

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exactly you swallow

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everything Edinburgh

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Edinburgh okay Edinburgh Edinburgh

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yeah edinb

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bur edenor edur Edinburgh Edinburgh

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Edinburgh very good yeah good

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pronunciation as well

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wow uh edin b or edin B is good like if

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you swallow the

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B yeah yeah absolutely I'm not sure it's

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it's a football club yeah as well play

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mouth play mou play mouth play play

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mouth play mou play mouth um how would

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you say

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ah you want another gu play

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Mo play out

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Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth nice Plymouth

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Plymouth

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Plymouth

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Plymouth yeah nice just swallow as many

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letters as you can exactly

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basically

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ometh h is in Northern

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Ireland okay this is Northern

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irand Omar

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Omar yeah yeah it's perfect Omar Omar

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Omar yeah yeah yeah really grandmother

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like the

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grandmother oh oh my gosh uh Omar Omar

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yeah yeah yeah yeah you almost said it

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when you said oh my gosh I thought you

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just got no no

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no yeah yeah perfect

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Omar Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln I think

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it's

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it's I don't think it's like the

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president L Lincoln yeah

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Lincoln yeah yeah Lincoln yeah yeah

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exactly Abram Lincoln like the something

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like that

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Lincoln

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Lincoln Lincoln yeah yeah perfect

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Lincoln Lincoln yeah

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Lincoln Lincoln

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nice Lincoln yeah perfect and then the

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final one is a town in

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Wales wow

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oh um oh my

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God it's a

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joke wow no no

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way

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in I don't have a clue

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really

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inle I I don't know it's not bad not bad

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uh I I need

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hey you're not far off

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in I don't know I'm confused by

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the in

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his you are working this out vo no of

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voc in in it's not far off Invincible

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like somehow it's yeah it's actually

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close

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anible yeah

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inis isable is you super close yes yeah

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Anis Anis wi what I don't know I just

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swallowed as many you were actually

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correct first time is

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an i i yeah Unis anible it's like

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Netherland or something sounds like that

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invisible yeah

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oh wow that's

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great yum

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y yeah y it's close anible with an a

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anible unable all right but that's

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pretty damn good yeah that's all 10 all

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right W if I had a prize I would give it

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to you but I don't all right thank you

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very much for watching this week's

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episode let us know in the comments

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below how many after 10 you guessed

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correctly and as always we'll see you

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next time t

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