How to Pronounce 20 London Underground Stations
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- When you visit London you'll almost certainly use the London Underground also known as the Tube. So in this English lesson I show you how to say 20 of the most popular stations like a local.
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Please remember I've got a London accent and there are other ways to pronounce these words.
0:00 Introduction
2:06 Leicester Square
2:22 Tottenham Court Road
3:30 Piccadilly
3:59 Oxford
4:46 Euston
5:00 Marylebone
5:25 Paddington
5:39 Holborn
6:04 Covent Garden
6:18 Greenwich
6:36 Kensington
7:11 Vauxhall
8:27 Embankment
9:40 Bush
9:49 Waterloo
10:01 Kings Cross
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Photo credit - Creative Commons License 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0) 1. NAPARAZZI London Underground 2. CAPTAIN ROGER FENTON public domain London Underground.
Eat Sleep Dream English Hi how do i talk like a british guy i meant the british accent lol thank you so much it means alot to me cause i'm a big fan of London UK lol.
Pues no estás tu para enseñar pronunciación...
But west country accents have wierd ones like gudge for goodge or anjaw for angel
Eat Sleep Dream English I:ve a question dear mr Tom! Are you Tom from the Weilá Tom o formely Tom Txxytu channel? If you are, you are half italian...
Aurora Brc Nos no hablamos espanol! Hablar inglés?
Lol i'm British and I can pronounce all of these but I have no idea why im watching
lol so am I, and so did I! I think it was just to make sure that he got them all right …
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I'm English too & I can pronounce all of those stations.. However it niggles me to hear this guy stress that these pronunciations are _his_ & that other ways of saying them can also be heard [ie in different accents & dialects] but that his way of saying Marylebone is the correct one.. Actually the version he likes is the closest to the correct one, but _NOT_ the way he tells his audience how to say it !!
It _is_ / _ought_ to be pronounced as "Mary-Le-Bon" & That IS the Correct way of pronouncing Marylebone ~ NOT "Mar-le-bone" !!
Grrrrr !! Thankyou & goodnight 👍
I took it to mean that he was saying that there's no "One Twue Way" to do anything. There's no "ought" about anything in life [or there shouldn't be]: we all have our own ways of doing things and saying things that are right for each of us. I say "Mare-lee-hone" and that's the right way - for me.
I've got a London accent and I'm also watching this lol
LMAO!
Little known fact: the Russian word for “railway station” is “voksal” because in the early days of railways, before there were any in Russia, Russian officials visited Vauxhall station and were so impressed they adopted the name as the generic word.
I knew that..as I studied Russian..i was thinking of mentioning it..lol..you beat me to it
Lol that’s amazing.
I'm not english, neither Russian. I don't know if it's a useful information but hey, awesome history!
I am
Such a good story! Thanks for sharing it with us! ;)
Mind the Gap between the train and the platform!
Damiano Mocellin 😂 Yes, indeed! It makes my day travelling on the tube to hear that announcement!
"mind the gap" you'll hear all the time in London tube.
At a German train station:
"ACHTUNG an Gleis ...! Ein Zug fährt durch!" all the time
"ATTENTION at platform number ...! A train is passing by!" means that in English.
Between is pronounced "be twin" !
Please do! Once you have actually fallen in the gap, you will understand the importance of that wise direction. Thank you to the kind people who helped pull me up out of the gap. I was too much in shock to help myself.
... this is Farringdon... The next station is Barbican this is a Hammersmith and city line train to Barking
I didn't think I was going to like this video but I enjoyed it. South Kensington: the stress is on the wallet..
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
looooool
Excatly the same hear, i though i going to leave a negative comment but acctualy was really good.
😂😂😂 Good sense of humour!
hahaha
As a native British English speaker, I still found this video really interesting because it made me aware how absurd some of our pronunciations can sound to non-native speakers, especially things I take for granted. Thank you!
I've got a university assignment due this coming week and I'm watching a CZcams video on how to pronounce London Underground Stations even though I live in London and am British ffs
Many of us here mate
"The next station is Bank. Change here for the Circle, District, Northern, and Waterloo & City lines.....and the DLR." 😁
the drain
This is what I hear everyday!!! Haha, I can hear the voice omg.
This is a Piccadilly Line service to Cockfosters
Always cracks me up
I'm a Londoner born in the late 1950s so my pronunciation is a bit different for a few of these. Grinnidge not Grennitch is the main one. A few very elderly people probably still say Cuvvent Garden. And I learned to say Marryleb'n when I worked there. Theydon Bois is a gorgeous place with a really excellent bakery that sells traditional London Cheesecakes (topped with strips of coconut).
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Sir,
at 1:46 you say that "you're never gonna go to Theydon Bois".
Back in July 1990, on a warm summer day, my then girlfriend and I took the Central Line to Theydon Bois to visit Epping Forest. The walk from Theydon Bois station to the forest was lovely and unforgettable: soft and tall golden grass covered fields, a blue sky and a serene village atmosphere throughout.
We had no idea how to pronounce "Theydon Bois", still we are the living proof that some tourists do go to Theydon Bois.
Ha ha! Good story Benedetto Bruno! How funny that you've actually been there. I take it back - people may well want to visit Theydon Bois!
Named from one of the areas that the Du Bois (more norman french invaders) got allocated - roughtly an arc over north london from High Wycombe To Chelmsford, the family split into two/three and a couple of branches fell out with the King and lived effectively as outlaws and not as Barons in the Lords !
There's a decent balti house right near Theydon Bois station as well...
Probably should be pronounced "teyeedon bwa", as it's French. But it's not.
The battle of Epping Forest!?
I visited london for two weeks in March and it was an amazing experience.
I enjoyed every moment there especially the easiest commuting system I've ever seen (Tubes)
Thx for your videos it helps me alot in improving my English.
Greetings from Egypt .
I am glad you had a good time, my friend:)
We, Tom's fans, think he's doing a really great service to those who need his guidance. He's delightful to listen to and bings a fresh look at a very traditional language. We are grateful for his stalwart effort. Thank you Tom
I am Italian and I moved to London couple of years ago. I find this video very useful to help me to improve my pronunciation. I also work at Borough!! Southwark area.....on a switchboard!!! And I have to say these names on the phone, therefore thanks sooo much!!!
I remember ,we can't say thanks a million .
I have binge watched your videos . I love the way you teach . Thank you so much Tom for this great work . ❤
Perfect, great class and I must confess I´ve been struggling a bit with Southwark and there is another one quite challenging for me, which is Shoreditch. Thanks very much for the amazing class.
Thanks! You are a great teacher. I was repeating them all out loud! I think I've got it!
you always come up with such creative ideas, thank you Tom! 😊
Ah thanks Khadija!
george I bet you must be one! Mr Tom is incredibly handsome!
As a Yank, that was thoroughly enjoyable. I've been to London twice. I love it there.
I have been at every station!! That was such a great feeling hearing all of this stationsnames again. Thank you thank you thank you.
I miss it so much not to be in London. 😢
The bloke can pronounce his own language properly and presents himself as some kind of expert!
Yes, and truly a blessing he is. I am personally grateful for his guidelines and expertise. Fortunately he has been able to recognise his gift and pass his knowledge on to us. Many thanks to Tom, I say.
No he does not, He speaks London not English. sometime it can be very different.
This makes me want to go to London even more! I'd love videos about some of these parts of the city :D
I'll add it to my video list Magdalena Bortel!
I recently went to Theydon Bois and it was a great place with lots of character and history. I think visitors to the UK should go there!
I have been meaning to go there for years. Thanks for your recommendation. I'll try and make the trip sometime soon.
Usefull!!! I remember some of these stations when i visited london one year ago. Thanks
Thank you so much for these pronunciations. Very informative
I mean, you can hear the voice in the car about the station you're going. I learnt it that way
I only dream obout going to London, I wish I was there! Thanks a milion, you're such a great teacher
Hope your dream comes true one day Monika B!
Hold on to your dreams Monika...I'm in New Zealand. I also dreamed of going to London and I first went there when i was 20 (I'm now 70) intending to stay and work for a year. I stayed for 8 years and have been back several times since.
Fantastic content ! I've been to London so many times and never realize this ! Thanks you so much ;)
This video is very helpful for non-native speakers who otherwise might have a good command of English. In everyday life it’s sometimes more important to know the correct pronunciation of a Tube station than the trickiest grammar rule. Excellent video. And I like your personality
As a native Spanish speaker, some of the words were tricky for me, but at the same time as an English student and teacher I do love these kind of challenges. Keep on posting more videos like this
Thanks teacher
gloucester loughborough llandudno
This video was SMASHING and I just joined the channel! I hope you'll take my British English to next level, one good pronounciation at a time!
Love your enthusiasm!
Massachusetts has many cities and towns that are also not pronounced as they're spelled, many of them borrowed from the motherland, i.e., Leominster, Worcester, Salisbury, Amherst, Plymouth, Barnstable, etc.
I think Amherst is pronounced as it's spelled
Except they are all "spelt" as they are pronounced, or at least vice versa,
The suffix -ham may stem from the word "hamlet" which means "village"...
A hamlet is not a village, it's much smaller, usually just a collection of houses.
What you said is correct.
Fulham, originated from Foul-Ham.
Prior to the embankments being constructed a Putney in the mid 19th century, the area was a flood plain with 75% under water at high tides and just a small settlement on an area of high ground.
The name is still the subject of some controversy, with some people believing that the Foul refereed to the thousands of water birds who inhabited the area while skeptics say that it just refereed to the smell as the tide ran out. Considering that at the time, the Thames was used as an open sewer, they have a point.
'Ham' is derived from the Old English word for 'home'. Home may mean a house or, more likely, a village. A 'hamlet' is a small 'ham', since '-let' is a diminutive.
Yes, I eard that the suffix ham is because the were a farm area there were the name took its place
Hamlets are mini-villages. Also Tower Hamlets - the hamlets around the Tower [of London]
We visit the UK and especially London at least once or twice a year but we still found your video helpful and informative. Very well presented. Thanks.
Great Video!! Very useful and funny as well. I am from Brazil and have been to London many times and still mispronounced many of those places. Thanks again!!
Thank you so much 😊 please do more video about British accent thanks
Will do azir uddin!
Thank you so much
Excellent video class! I am an English Teacher here in Brazil, and your video helps a lot. Thanks a lot.
I actually laughed out loud when you did your 'speak just like a local' rendition. I couldn't imitate that on my very BEST day. Hilarious.
Hi, Tom. I found this subject very interesting. I’ve live In London and I did have problems on the underground asking people how to get to some tube stations. At the beginning they wouldn’t understand the name of the station I meant.
By the way I lived in the London Borough of Southwark which it’s not small and never understood why that station the name of the whole borough.
Hi Tom, greetings from Shanghai! Thanks very much for such a useful lesson -- it really helped that you cleared up several tricky pronunciations such as Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Marylebone. When I first visited London during this year's New Year week, my friend introduced me to Covent Garden. Actually, I especially paid attention to how locals pronounced it, but I was still unsure if the "t" is silenced intentionally as I heard it or it's actually there. Again, thank you for clearing that up! Now I feel more confident pronouncing those names. Look forward to your second video of this series (Do hope there will be one!).
So pleased you found it useful Oliver Koh! Your New Year trip sounds great - what a fun time to be in London!
I loved your explanations!!
It's so helpful. Thank you very much :)
Oh you are so kind and nice, mate!
Southwark is the most difficult to me. My mind doesn't ho along with my tongue. 😅
Very useful lesson. Thanks.
I think Southwark wins the prize for the hardest station to pronounce!
I mostly pronounce it as ... Sutherk!
Are you brazilian? Maybe: sóf-uók.
French people in particular have difficulties with this because of the lack of "th" in their language.
Suthvvuuuk
Fantastic video absolutely useful and well done bravoooo
Gotta say, you are just a delight to listen to!
Thanks a millions , that's really great lesson 🙌 so now next step is to visit London , I hope so 😆
This guy is the best!
Hehe Cheers Dax : ) Maybe a collaboration soon?
Really really useful video for me . Thanks a lot
Fabulous and highly useful! I'll recommend this video to all the BNOS anxiously looking for information!
I'm an American in London at the moment, and I'm having a hard time understanding many people that don't speak with an RP accent. RP is just a slight, soft accent, while many others are a sharper, harder accent (at least for me).
I lived on Queens Gate Road, St. John's Wood in the 80's. Just a few minutes walk from the St. John's Wood tube station. It took me a bit, but I eventually learned that you pronounce it, Not Saint Johns Wood...but sin johns wood, Phonetically.Do you concur? Either way, as a teenager from California....It was HEAVEN!!! Thanks for your great channel!
For Anyone who was christened with St John in their name, you would definitely address them as Sinjun. But, as a Londoner myself, I’ve NEVER heard St Johns Wood (the place) pronounced any other way than as written. Could be a temporary affectation, as was Battersea for a while, when Sloane rangers called it Batt-erzee-ah. Emphasising the middle syllable for snobby effect.
@@josephinebennington7247 Thank you for your insight Josephine. And thanks for the funny tidbit about Battersea. LOL. That is quite funny.
Love your film ... and I'm a Londoner. Yeah! Do some of the outer stations like Ruislip. Well done Sir.
They're all easy to say now that I have listened to and mimicked your pronunciation. Thank you so much! Subscribed.
melvina628 fantastic! Glad it helped you and thanks for subscribing ☺️☺️☺️
Thank you for that. I kept saying Saint Pancreas.
It is Sunt-Pangkrus.
Snt Pankrus
I just refer to it as Snt Pank and I use it a lot.
Is it safe for diabetics to go there?
You get there by the Eust(on St)achean Tube.
I like this guy.
Love these classes. I am from Scotland 🏴 was in London in the summer holidays using some of the tube stations
Thank you mate. I could say them all... my mate in London will be proud ❤️
Thanks Tom for this amazing pronunciation class. I like your British accent, that's great!
Might be useful to mention Gloucester Road which is good for the Royal Albert Hall if you're coming from West London
Thanks very much for this helpful video, Tom. I love it when you said "sometimes English makes sense" :-)
So many good memories from my visits to London
Thanks for your video bro, its very helping me for improving my british
So pleased Rizky!
Eat Sleep Dream English Okay, im from indonesia. Please say Hi to Indonesia haha
Hi Indonesia!
Thank you so much brother
There is no such language.
He is an awsome English teacher
Students need such guys.
This is really great. You had to be my teacher. Mrs O Connel was a nice woman but he is a Rock Star.
Funny and verry good
Very helpful. You're a great teache!
Thanks for the excellent teaching
"Sadly there are no circuses" LOL
I’m going to Theydon Bois 🤣
Ha! Let's go Edmond!
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This is so bloody awesome. Cheers🥂
That was really good tutorial. Funny and useful with very practical approach.
Theydon Bois is noted for its residents' refusal to allow street lighting to be installed. There are a few lamps near the station but that's it. Keep in mind if going there at night!
Great Golf Course. Belongs to the City of London - part of Epping Forest.
LILAC EYES!! ^^ how lovely:)
Ha ha - yes something up with the editing software I'm afraid!
Thanks a lot Tom, will open this, when visit london.
Very helpful.Thank you.
Even though I am British , and can say all these, I watched this to see which ones were mispronounced.
Initially I was puzzled by some of the choices as I could not see how they could be mispronounced, 'Knightsbridge' for example. But then I put on my 'American accent' and I realised that the difference was in the stress, as it came out with equal stress on both syllables- KNIGHTS BRIDGE. where as , as he said, the stress is on the first syllable, 'KNIGHTS-bridge', in 'proper' English.
Living in Canada, I hear these all the time, but sometimes, complete mispronunciations. Torquay Road is pronounced as 'Tor-kay' , and the 'Berwick' retirement home as 'Ber-wick'! (Tor-kee and Berrick are of course the correct way to say them!)
Good video ESDE !
Hay on Wye is called Why Jelly - that's what the road sign says: Y Gelli. Like your name. Explanation please.
@@lawrencesimmons5093 Y Gelli is the Welsh Name for Hay, which is right on the border. Is 'Why Jelly' the local pronunciation, or is that yours?
In fact 'Gelli' is pronounced with a hard 'G' , like 'GET' and the 'LL' is a unique Welsh sound, that does NOT sound like 'JELLY' . Say the letter 'L', notice that the tongue rests on your upper palate, on the crest of the ridge behind your upper teeth. Leave it there and now blow without moving your tongue. That's the Welsh 'LL'. To get FAIRLY close without actually doing the LL sound, say 'Gethlee' .
Gelli is the village in the Rhondda Valley in Wales where I am from originally, and means in Welsh a wooded area.
Circus does not mean roundabout for a traffic system. It is the Latin for circle because buildings generally were constructed to form a circle, although this effect has been lost over time with some, especially Piccadilly Circus when Shaftesbury Avenue was constructed during the late-1870s and early-1880s. A clearer example is Oxford Circus but to appreciate better the appearance of a circus one should take note of The Circus, at Bath, in Somerset, especially when viewed from above.
If Trafalgar Square had been round, it would have been Trafalgar Circus.
Simple, really.
bingola45: And if Piccadilly Circus had been square it would have been Piccadilly Square.....
Beats me how people get confused.
bingola45: Ah, it take all sorts....and it has been known for some to imagine Piccadilly Circus included performances by animals, clowns and trapeze artists.
They probably bunked-off school during Latin.
Thank you so much, dear Tom.
You are welcome Sergio : )
Eu amei o vídeo e aprendi Muito, porque quando estive aí tive dificuldade na pronúncia. Obrigada querido!
Next stop Earl's Court this is a district line to Upminster!
What about Plaistow? For those who don't know, it's pronounced 'PLARstow' , not 'PLAYstow', but it's definitely not a tourist area. You forgot to mention that people from the general London area will sometimes refer to Borough as The Borough, just as the refer to the nearby Elephant and Castle simply as The Elephant.
I´ve never heard Elephant and Castle being called The Elephant but it might something of the people in the Elephant and Castle area.
Helped a lot. Thank you
Wowwww I miss London very very much thank you for this amazing class!!!!!
I've always called it Mary LE bone and I'm from the UK 😃😄😅
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This make non-native speakers feel more comfortable, thank you! :) Lorenzo (Padova, Italy)
Or you could call it Marie the Os.
It’s pronounced mar - ler- bone
I loved reading that comment!
This brings back memories from almost 50 years ago when I was a young Scot recently arrived in London (not from Glasgow, but further north in the real Scottish Highlands as a guide to my accent 😉) who was asked by a female junior colleague on a Monday morning what I’d done during the weekend - I responded that I had enjoyed visiting SouthWARK Cathedral (I have no interest in religion, but architecture does appeal to me), which caused her to burst out laughing - she explained to me the correct way to pronounce it, but honestly it didn’t bother me then and doesn’t bother me now, I used it as just one more learning experience to say things how they are commonly pronounced - I’ve since had many similar “learning events” in diverse parts of the world I’ve visited for work or for leisure, although saying place names as the locals do certainly makes for a less complicated experience though 👍😂
Very nice video! Thank you
Thanks a lot for this video. My friends in London were quite impressed with my pronunciation. I bought an Oyster Card and travelled on Public Transport for a week. I talked to many locals and they helped as well.
0:57 Is it just me or his eyes are purple
Oh men, we must have miss pronounced all the names in our recent video about London. Sorry about that, but the Tube is a great system to move around the city.
Yes - it's very useful! I'll have to check out your video Dutch Nomad Couple.
I like to think its one of the worlds best... I mean it IS the worlds oldest system going and its still topping the charts of easy to read/navigate and get by.
@@CrazyInWeston agree. Only hard to read 😂
Thank you ,It is very useful.
Thanks!!! You are amazing...Tom, thanks
Marrelebn (four syllables) stressed on first syllable and with no secondary stress .. Grennidge .. that's my native Londoner idiolect
Tim Berry yes, I’ve always pronounced them like that. Especially Grennidge!!
Tim Berry EXACTLY
Leicester is the worst...because you eat a part of the word🤣
No, it's Leice-ster. Nothing eaten
Gloucester road is another one
@@KiliTheKiller Aah... Now I get it 🤔
Lester
naa, u eat, worcestershire,..as in sauce c;
Brilliant! Now I´m ready to visit London!
You made a very good video. Thank you!
4:16 The ancient name is Heath Row. Locals pronounce it HeathROW; the rest of the world (including Brits): HEATHrow.
Cockneys say: "Eef-woe"
(Source: internet ;-)
Thanks for sharing that aredas!
I don't think I stress either the heath or the row... or I stress them both pretty equally.
I live in Nottingham now and it bugs me how the locals call one of the shopping centres here "Broad-MARSH". Seems so weird stressing the "marsh" to me...
I'm a cockney and I don't use a 'w'! To me it's "EEfrow" with the accent on the first syllable. Ok, so I do use a 'w', just not where you put it :)
Cockneys don't have lisps
@@MattDavis_BeechingsGhosts- I'm a cockney, and I call it "Ee-frow".
Tthere's the Dickensian stereotype that cockneys swap V and W, but R and W? I suspect someone's watched "Mary Poppins" too often …
"(Source: internet ;-)"??? Oh, it must be absolutely true, then
Over the years I've noticed that Marylebone is pronounced differently by many native Londoners. There's not really a single way locals pronounce it.
I always pronounced it 'Marly-bun'
Lol I'm from south coast England we say 'Mar lee born'
I've been trying to understand how to spell Marylebone for a month now! Your lesson was really helpful! Cheers
Nice, thanks for the tips!