42 HARDEST London Underground Stations to Pronounce

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @edwardmiessner6502
    @edwardmiessner6502 5 лет назад +10

    As an American who grew up in the Northeast US, I find a lot of these names very easy to pronounce.
    That's a great Texas accent you've got!

  • @britishjohn62
    @britishjohn62 2 года назад +2

    I live close to Greenwich Village in NYC now after moving from West Yorkshire, so I know how to pronounce Greenwich

  • @laurasellera3340
    @laurasellera3340 5 лет назад +8

    The moment you started talking about the “HAM” stations I remembered repeating “Fulham Broadway” every time I heard it inside the train. I’ve been to London in 2014 and stayed near East Putney station. Hope to be back soon, I just loved the city! But then, who doesn’t? Cheers!!

  • @Subhanshu_1
    @Subhanshu_1 5 лет назад +11

    Hey, I can't thank you enough. I was saying Marylebone (Mary - Lee - Bone) as it reads until I watched this video and got to know the correct pronunciation (Mar-le-bone).

  • @mumekone
    @mumekone 5 лет назад +2

    2 weeks ago I was in London, and I was teaching my London friends from Poland how to pronounce names of stations :D
    cheers man

  • @tatyanabulygina5177
    @tatyanabulygina5177 5 лет назад +3

    I can't thank you enough, Tom for this video, I've been studying with Lingoda for the past month and going to take part in the Lingoda marathon!

  • @sophias2186
    @sophias2186 5 лет назад +11

    Thank you so much Tom for this amazing video! That's really helpful!

  • @teaperm3549
    @teaperm3549 2 года назад

    So, to sum things up, Key:
    () to separate || i.e. no-(th) = north because it is a “th” sound not a “t” “h” sound
    {} another way to explain it || i.e. (uh){i} B’an d(uh){i}j = bandage
    [] a stronger sound. Japanese “ ゛”|| i.e. “th” as in “that” is [th]
    ‘ accent || i.e. s’[a]nd wi(ch) / p’[i]-p(uh)l / b’(uh){ah}{a}b(uh)l r[a]p
    - long sound || i.e. no-(th) / da-k / w[i]-k
    Japanese っッ stopping breath sound || i.e. K’u:k
    [i] usual “ee” sound || i.e. Gr[i]-n / AuE L[i] t(uh){i}l
    [th] hard “th” sound || i.e. [th][a]t
    [a] AmE “a” sound || i.e. AmE [a] p(uh)l
    [j] hard Russian “J” щ not ш || i.e. [j]’o ko vi(ch)
    [v] hard Russian “V” || i.e. [V]la [j][i] m[i]r
    < > (space) end of syllable || i.e. No vak [j]’o ko [v][i](ch)
    North Greenwich
    Pronounced: No-(th) Gr’eni(ch)
    Clapham common
    Pronounced: Clap-am c’om(uh)n
    Marylebone
    Pronounced: M’ar l(uh) b(uh)n
    Leicester square
    Pronounced: L’est(uhr) skwe(ah)
    Southwark
    Pronounced: S’(ah)[th](uh){i}k
    Holborn
    H’ou b(uh){i}n
    ruclips.net/video/ZbLWmo9yB5U/видео.html&ab_channel=TennisTV
    -Ham
    ham is always pronounced (uh)m. I.e. Fulham broadway, balham etc.
    Fulham broadway
    Pronounced: F’ul (uh)m bro-d wei{y}
    Balham
    Pronounced: B’a l(uh)m
    Lewisham
    Pronounced: L’u [i] (sh)(uh)m
    Tottenham court road
    T’o t(uh){i} n(uh)m c’o-t roud
    Disappearing consonants
    Disappearing /W/
    Chiswick Park
    Pronounced: (Ch)i zi:k Pa-k
    Warwick avenue
    Pronounced: W’o rik ‘a v(uh){i} (ny)u-
    Woolwich arsenal
    Pronounced: W’ul i(ch) ‘a- s(uh){i} n(uh)l
    Other dropped consonants
    Deptford bridge
    Pronounced: D’et f(uh){i}d bri:j
    Vauxhall
    Pronounced: V’o:ks (uh){i}l
    Bermondsey
    Pronounced: B’(uh)r m(uh)n z[i]-
    Aldgate
    Pronounced: ‘O-l g[a][i]t
    Glottal sounds
    Glottal t
    Use Japanese っッ at “T” sound
    Waterloo
    Pronounced: Normal: W’o- t(uh) lu-
    “British”: W’o- (uh) lu-
    Leyton
    Pronounced: Normal: L’e[i] t(uh)n
    “British”: L’e[i] (uh)n
    Glottal K
    Chalk farm
    Pronounced: Normal: (Ch)’o-k fa-m
    “British”: (Ch)’o- fa-m
    Other hard names
    Marylebone
    Pronounced: M’a- l(uh){i} b(uh){i}n
    Plaistow
    Pronounced: Pl’a- stou
    Ruislip
    Pronounced; Ra[i] sli:p
    Euston
    Pronounced: Y{i}u- st(uh){i}n
    Gloucester road/Leicester square
    Pronounced: Gl’o: st(uh) roud/L’est(uhr) skwe(ah)
    Hainault
    Pronounced: H’ei{y} no-
    Theydon bois
    Pronounced: Th’ei{y} d(uh){i}n b’oi{y}z
    Sorry for the long comment, please correct me if you find any mistakes.

  • @cristina4327
    @cristina4327 5 лет назад +2

    I'm always interested in learning how to pronunce London tube stations properly, so thank you Tom for this video! I'm lucky enough to visit London twice a year and I always make sure to pay attention to the right pronunciation of these places when I'm on the Tube :)

  • @mileycassandra8743
    @mileycassandra8743 5 лет назад +2

    Brilliant lesson from you today.I can't wait to watch your next video.Keep it up!!👍👍👍

  • @user-ff5kv2fo6s
    @user-ff5kv2fo6s 5 лет назад +1

    you are the best teacher!!!! 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

  • @simibro1709
    @simibro1709 5 лет назад +1

    Love these lessons about tube stations! Personally I don't have a clue or I'm not sure how to pronounce those ones (UG or OG stations): Buckhurst Hill, Cheshunt, Tufnell Park, Pontoon Dock, Croxley, Northolt, Osterley, Goldhawk Road. Thanks Tom!

  • @soniaturchetta3420
    @soniaturchetta3420 Год назад

    Great! Very interesting...and tricky! Thanks a lot

  • @alfreddino2071
    @alfreddino2071 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you!! Love this. English is a quite complex language in the way that it has so many reforms/revolutions (hope it is the correct way to say it) and also constantly absorbs vocabulary from other existing language. The place with most confusing pronunciation to me is still Marylebone!! I asked more than 10 Londoners and I nearly received 10 different version. haha..

  • @alejandrolukawecki320
    @alejandrolukawecki320 5 лет назад +3

    Hi Tom!! I am Alejandro from Argentina. Amazing all your videos!! I love one you make with Papa Teacher and my request is if both can make one about airport vocabulary. Thank you!!

  • @TheJoyfulEye
    @TheJoyfulEye 3 года назад

    As a child I failed all my spelling tests the first couple of months after we moved to Boston, simply because I was hearing a New England accent with a mid-Western ear! But whatever the accent or dialect it is so true that speakers naturally take shortcuts in pronunciation. As. a primary school teacher I found the marking system in the Spalding method very useful in helping children understand and remember how words are sometimes pronounced differently from the spelling.

  • @lipcovitch1
    @lipcovitch1 5 лет назад +3

    Another very usefull lesson! Thanks a lot. Why not a lesson with London street names, train stations, boroughes etc

  • @thiagogaio105
    @thiagogaio105 3 года назад

    Last year when I was in London, the closest station to my hotel was Earl Court (not that easy to pronounce though) but a near station made me lose some sleep, and the station was EDGWARE ROAD. Great Video!

  • @NT-jk4yu
    @NT-jk4yu 2 года назад

    I love this video. I was wondering if you can make a video to teach us how to pronounce every station in London? Thanks

  • @mywj7775
    @mywj7775 4 года назад

    thank you a lot, this video helps me a lot! it remind me the time that i had lived in london in old days.
    i hope i can go to london again.

  • @aliciamorales3199
    @aliciamorales3199 5 лет назад

    Hi Tom! Please a video explaining the pronounciation of shopping and charm, the difference between ch and sh. Thank you! You rock!

  • @AYESHA-vk2uz
    @AYESHA-vk2uz 5 лет назад +1

    It's important lesson to trip in london. Thx tom
    ꦥꦒꦶꦲꦫꦶꦪꦁꦕꦼꦫꦃ

  • @mr51406
    @mr51406 3 года назад

    The best way to properly know how to pronounce tube stations is to listen to the game called “Mornington Crescent” on the panel show “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue” on BBC Radio 4.
    Excellent video🌟. Jess from Love and London sent me here.
    There’s an area called Mile End here in Montreal too and also linked together. 🇨🇦

  • @markhh
    @markhh 5 лет назад +2

    This is now one of my favorite RUclips videos.

  • @Reneeptz
    @Reneeptz 5 лет назад +8

    Hey, Tom! Please, answer the question. Making video about Prince Willam's accent is taboo in the UK?

  •  4 года назад

    I remember the first time I arrived in London, some friends were impressed by my correct pronuncation of Clapham and more generally stations finishing by "HAM" .... well... coming from France, that was my natural way to pronunce them. The same for Vauxhall. There is also some other stations I was pronuncing correctly without knowing such as aldgade (because the D was too difficult to pronunce), Mile end, because I don't know any other way and Hainault because it sounds like a classical french name.

  • @soledadearcoverde3223
    @soledadearcoverde3223 5 лет назад

    I Love your videos . I also follow Mad English TV. Both have helped my English learning.

  • @sahanaashokmudagal6544
    @sahanaashokmudagal6544 5 лет назад

    Thanks for the video

  • @TheElectromantra
    @TheElectromantra 5 лет назад

    The hardest one is Eat Sleep Dreamer. You say it so fast that is impossible to shadowing you. Thank you for the lesson,

  • @BillCameronWC
    @BillCameronWC 5 лет назад +2

    Interesting video. Although I'm British (from Scotland) some underground names were very strange when I first lived in London many years ago; for the first several months there I behaved just like a tourist most weekends & would try and visit someplace new each week. One Monday morning a London staff member in the office (in the City) asked me what I'd done that weekend, as you do, she knew of my interest in visiting different places, etc, already. I had visited Southwark Cathedral (for the architecture & the organ playing) and as soon as I said the name she burst out laughing & explained the correct pronunciation ;) . Another name you could add to your list, also from the East End, is Plaistow. Might be worth covering Amersham too as its treatment is a little different from some other names ending 'ham', but not preceded by an 's'.

    • @norm7747
      @norm7747 5 лет назад +3

      He has actually mentioned Plaistow

    • @BillCameronWC
      @BillCameronWC 5 лет назад +1

      @@norm7747 Ah, thanks, I must have missed that - have to give it another view :)

  • @stanleyt.7930
    @stanleyt.7930 5 лет назад +2

    Americans in particular usually put the stress in place names at the end of a word, the British more to the front. So BirmingHAM is in Alabama, BIRming'm is England.

  • @Dazzling_Shadow
    @Dazzling_Shadow 5 лет назад +1

    Great Video ❤️

  • @MiaFreya
    @MiaFreya 5 лет назад +1

    Your southern American accent is precious! 😂 Please do them more often.

  • @joness27
    @joness27 5 лет назад

    Omg Tom that was GREAT! 😁 Thanx a lot!

  • @Franciscoluche
    @Franciscoluche 5 лет назад +2

    Paddington Bear !!! 🤗❤️

  • @philipgeorgemorgan8046
    @philipgeorgemorgan8046 5 лет назад

    Thanks for this lesson. Is there any opportunity to prepare another video lesson about Hardest UK cities, towns etc to pronounce, please? Thanks

  • @amartokmo
    @amartokmo 5 лет назад

    Tom thank you for great video and for learning us english

  • @c.olaechea
    @c.olaechea 5 лет назад +3

    Thanks for the lesson. I think the most difficult word to pronounce is Ruislip (Ricelip).

  • @danielyelen1618
    @danielyelen1618 3 года назад

    This is a great video. Whenever I ride the Underground, I'm always puzzled by the recorded voice announcing SLOANE SQUARE.

  • @cezaryjedrzycki6184
    @cezaryjedrzycki6184 5 лет назад +1

    Top man 👍

  • @TheM4UR0S
    @TheM4UR0S 5 лет назад +2

    Hi Tom. Could you please make a video about dates? I mean, ordinal numbers. Who comes first, the month or the number? Thanks 😊

    • @lindenbeck
      @lindenbeck 5 лет назад

      The fucking Americans use month day and the British use day month. 12/31 is American English and 31/12 is British English.

  • @Franciscoluche
    @Franciscoluche 5 лет назад +2

    In the 80’s, my father had a VAUXHALL car !!! 🤗❤️ (in Portugal 🇵🇹 😅)

  • @rekcarctun
    @rekcarctun 5 лет назад

    Nice video Tom! Love it! London tube stations are always interesting and fun to pronounce. I feel like sometimes we could never pronounce the name right unless we have actual been to those tube stations, so we can hear it haha. And fun fact that I used to live in Bow Road station, but people sometimes confused it with Borough station whilst I said it ;p

  • @smileforworldmotivationcha7144
    @smileforworldmotivationcha7144 4 года назад +1

    Tom. Hi I'm Timothy from Indonesia. I want to ask, How to use pupil and is it commonly used and how to pronounce it? I'm not sure if I pronounce it correctly

  • @awimar
    @awimar 5 лет назад

    Really interesting! Thank you.

  • @johnvonundzu2170
    @johnvonundzu2170 5 лет назад +3

    Eat Sleep Spell English - @1:50 the word consonents (sic) on appears on the screen - oops.

    • @marvinb832
      @marvinb832 5 лет назад

      I know but he won't acknowledge, i have noticed poor pronunciation in the past and mentioned it. Now spelling!

    • @PhrasalVerbMan
      @PhrasalVerbMan 5 лет назад

      @@marvinb832 & @John vonundzu...the most important point though is did you learn anything from the video? If yes, then there's the value right there...native speakers make spelling mistakes the time.

  • @wattebol
    @wattebol 11 месяцев назад

    I specially love Marylebone, as Londoners themselves do not agree about how to pronounce it.

  • @ladyt618
    @ladyt618 5 лет назад +4

    LOL I love his southern accent 😂😂

    • @fastwalker2163
      @fastwalker2163 5 лет назад +1

      Please, would't you to not native speakers: why "lol"? Is it funny or something?
      btw Tom sounds very well and VERY CLEAR for not native speakers.

  • @mamymimma
    @mamymimma 5 лет назад +6

    Thank you, I've always mispronounced Greenwich 😉 Is there a reason why all these names have a difficult pronunciation in common, Tom?

    • @c.olaechea
      @c.olaechea 5 лет назад +2

      I am not Tom, but I can see BE preserve some old English pronunciation (or it's just innovation).

  • @nigelgbarber7848
    @nigelgbarber7848 5 лет назад +2

    I forgot to add that quite often both are placed in North East London, but nobody knows where that is.

  • @alexthunderfield9676
    @alexthunderfield9676 5 лет назад +1

    Thornton Heath is pretty tough too, not sure if the overground counts

  • @therra1101
    @therra1101 Год назад

    Regarding the ham part of things, wasn´t it incorporated into the sh sound then? Just asking as I was never sure how to pronounce Lewisham (as a non-native speaker).

  • @nigdyzapozno
    @nigdyzapozno 3 года назад

    A great video apart from a typo (consonants, not consonents ;) Cheers!

  • @nushar5366
    @nushar5366 5 лет назад

    Cheers Mate...

  • @alicerossi_ap
    @alicerossi_ap 5 лет назад

    If I say these underground stations after you, I don't have big problems to pronounce them (the real problem is to remember the correct pronunciation when I'm alone 😄, but I'll practice before I go back to London)..........of course my accent is not as beautiful and precise as yours 😊
    I've always said "Greenwich" like Americans and I didn't know to mispronounce it 😳
    Cheers Tom 🙂, see you in our next class!

  • @simonwinter8839
    @simonwinter8839 2 года назад

    My wife or rather ex wife was once asked by an African chap if the bus they were on was going to The Elephant and Animal. She never called the Elephant and Castle anything else again.
    Incidentally if you want to sound like a real Londoner just call it " The (pronounced Thee) Elephant ".

  • @fastwalker2163
    @fastwalker2163 5 лет назад +1

    "Mary - Leh - Bone" - it sounds like a music!
    Very useful lesson! Tnank you!
    "Woh-Rik", "Green Age", "Toh'Ehm Kort rOAd"... I'm so sorry, but my first reaction to what happened was: WTF is goin' on? Where am I? What are these names?!

  • @frankschoeneman1721
    @frankschoeneman1721 2 года назад

    Tuyệt quá, giọng Phúc ấm áp quá

  • @williamgutierrez7986
    @williamgutierrez7986 5 лет назад

    Great!!

  • @johnlabus7359
    @johnlabus7359 5 лет назад

    There are actually a lot of these names and sounds in American towns and cities, and they are said similarly. Also, there are Americans in different parts of the country that struggle with some of them as well. However, that struggle isn't consistent across the country. As for the Glottal T sound, it's not hard to see how it might be related to one of the American T sounds (the D sounding one) if you really think about it a bit.

  • @JeanneJ01
    @JeanneJ01 5 лет назад

    Greenwich village in Manhattan is pronounced without the w

  • @nainaporwal6730
    @nainaporwal6730 5 лет назад

    Hi Tom, In Your all video I'm unable to understand which alphabet I need to silent. How can I come to know which alphabet should I silently? Pls help me out.

  • @ChiMasterMedia
    @ChiMasterMedia 5 лет назад +1

    Dartford
    Peckham
    Aldgate 😀

  • @hudsonxxxxkirk5261
    @hudsonxxxxkirk5261 4 года назад

    Yes i heard it earlier tom

  • @xFallingxStar
    @xFallingxStar 5 лет назад +1

    Now I know why the guy rolled his eyes when I asked him to point me in the direction of Southwark.

  • @nigelgbarber7848
    @nigelgbarber7848 5 лет назад +2

    Leytonstone often is said as leytonstun, also Walthamstow is wrongly Walthumstow.

    • @TSpeed-zq6le
      @TSpeed-zq6le 5 лет назад

      Walthamstow is a good one to add to the list!

  • @carlosmachado7026
    @carlosmachado7026 5 лет назад +4

    Tom, you wrote "consonEnts"!!!!

  • @gerdajonauskine6645
    @gerdajonauskine6645 4 года назад

    Few my fav station not on there😝😉

  • @kholiotube5247
    @kholiotube5247 5 лет назад

    Can you speak more about IELTS lessons, thanks

  • @jwtommy
    @jwtommy 5 лет назад

    I do love your Texas accent. That's awesome!!! lol

  • @juliomarcus
    @juliomarcus 5 лет назад +1

    I still remember how I used to call Streatham 7 years ago when I moved to London. hahahaha

  • @dhanusubashi
    @dhanusubashi 5 лет назад

    I live in Theydon Bois. It’s a little village

  • @ihthgn3853
    @ihthgn3853 5 лет назад +2

    So, Birmingham would be Birming'um? Or is that a London rule only?

    • @Keapix
      @Keapix 4 года назад

      Ihthgn it’s not London only 🙂

  • @LinkWave290
    @LinkWave290 5 лет назад

    You should make a video on the accents used in Dragon Quest.

  • @alielmi9385
    @alielmi9385 3 года назад

    Why did you do a exame in the ton Alperton

  • @p.millard557
    @p.millard557 3 года назад +1

    Honesty, I am sorry to say that Tom's pronunciation of some stations like Leyton, Waterloo, Totting is that of uneducated people. Educated Londoners wouldn´t say that.

  • @jwb52z9
    @jwb52z9 5 лет назад +1

    Even Greenwich village in New York isn't "Green wich".

  • @Mrmontie2011
    @Mrmontie2011 5 лет назад

    "Cockfosters"))
    now I realize why I barely understood public announcements in the tube in London -- because of all this sophisticated pronunciation)

  • @FabianBlack2k
    @FabianBlack2k 5 лет назад

    A learn accent video about Matt Ryan (constantine)

  • @federicacaovini4328
    @federicacaovini4328 5 лет назад +1

    Marylebone, what??? I can't believe it :D

  • @capcyvasile
    @capcyvasile 2 года назад

    Sanpacras inerational 😀

  • @StewyAdamRules
    @StewyAdamRules 3 года назад

    Some of these I’m sure I could have figured out, but a few I don’t think so. Can only hope the locals would take pity on me and tell me how they’re really pronounced.

  • @teaperm3549
    @teaperm3549 2 года назад

    Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but 1:50 you spelt consonants "consonents".

  • @caidencraig1371
    @caidencraig1371 2 года назад

    West Um

  • @JetskiDex
    @JetskiDex 5 лет назад +1

    Southwark is very confusing aswell

  • @Zedek
    @Zedek 4 года назад

    Oh no! Does that mean the famous Tomb Raider III Level - Aldwych - has been pronounced wrong by me for 2 decades now? "Ald-Witch"?

  • @mojavesl
    @mojavesl 4 года назад

    You make a comment that isn't true. I'm from New England, from a town spelled Norwich, but we pronounce it "Noridge" -- no "w". Down the coast a few miles is Greenwich, pronounced "Grenidge." And up the coast a bit is Warwick pronounced "Warick." So, in New England, we have the same pronunciation as in Britain. People from other regions of the US have difficult with our town names, including the ones like Worcester, etc.

  • @IanRomErv
    @IanRomErv 5 лет назад +4

    There's a trick I made for pronuncing Euston, it's just Houston without the H.

    • @frankmcelroy5423
      @frankmcelroy5423 5 лет назад +1

      Ian The Hedgefox unless you’re from Manhattan

  • @yuliagorodetskaya
    @yuliagorodetskaya 4 года назад

    Sloane Square is surprisingly confusing 😳

  • @jwb52z9
    @jwb52z9 5 лет назад

    Vowel pairs like "ai" and "ui" are difficult in some cases even for American English speakers to keep straight.

  • @martinstefanov6605
    @martinstefanov6605 5 лет назад

    Hi, Tom! Please answer my questions!
    Why you pronounce the "t" in the word "often" despite you are English? I thought that this "t" in "often" is pronounce by Americans.

    • @albee8165
      @albee8165 5 лет назад +1

      That is a regional accent that he has that is showing in that word. Most of us pronounce it as "offen"

  • @TheMaurobala
    @TheMaurobala 3 года назад

    Tottenham Court Road is far the hardest to me....

  • @isntbrian
    @isntbrian 5 лет назад +3

    It’s hard to say “Earls Court”

  • @alexthebadassbadger5749
    @alexthebadassbadger5749 5 лет назад

    Hainault could sound like 'high note' 😅

  • @abrakan
    @abrakan 5 лет назад

    Is the sauce called Worcester or Wuuster? :)

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 5 лет назад

      It's pronounced "woostah," I believe. I know it is in Massachusetts!

    • @blackletter2591
      @blackletter2591 5 лет назад +1

      It's Worcestershire sauce. In Australia, we pronounce it "woostersheer" .

  • @iambjcincle3991
    @iambjcincle3991 4 года назад +1

    I thought for CERTAIN there were going to be some "...shire" ones!!

  • @aurthanesbit7408
    @aurthanesbit7408 5 лет назад

    Yo Tom

  • @chaudhary8321
    @chaudhary8321 5 лет назад

    Please tell me Here we go meaning ...

  • @neofils
    @neofils 5 лет назад

    Walthamstow , where my sister leaves.

  • @maximiliandc2
    @maximiliandc2 5 лет назад +3

    Did you just say Cockfosters is the hardest underground station to pronounce? 🤣