Saying UK place names without getting laughed at
Say tricky UK place names the way locals do.
Hi, a return to Leicester, please.
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Towns and cities7
- A return to Leicester, pleaseSay it LES-ter, rhyming with 'jester'.
- I'm going to GloucesterGLOSS-ter.
- She's at uni in LoughboroughLUFF-bruh.
- Next stop, ReadingRED-ing, like the colour red, not like reading a book.
- Two singles to EdinburghED-in-bruh or ED-in-burra.
- I'm getting the train to BirminghamBUR-ming-um.
- Is this the train for Derby?DAR-bee.
Around London5
Counties and days out3
Check yourself15 questions
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- How Talk picked them
- Part of Talk's themed British life packs. Talk wrote each phrase with what it really means, when to say it, what not to say instead and one quiz question. A phrase gets a moment only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. This pack holds 15 phrases.
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- Dictionary details
- From Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Princeton WordNet, used under the WordNet licence. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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