How Did The Counties Of England Get Their Names?

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[NameExplain]

What county are you watching from? Anyone else in West Sussex!?

[MrRQBQ]

England historically was divided into tax areas known as 'shires' The people responsible for collecting these taxes were officials know as 'reeves' These 'shire reeves' eventually became known as 'sheriffs'

[secktorichah]

Berkshire is pronounced barkshire. Also derby is pronounced darby

[CaptainTowll]

An Englishman mispronouncing Derbyshire is unacceptable

[daryltedstone]

The University of Warwick is not in Warwick, it's in Coventry.

[kuyaleinad]

Take a shot everytime Patrick mispronounces a county 😂

(Seriously though I’d normally give a pass for mispronunciations but you live here 🤷‍♂️😂)

[richardplester]

Shameful that an English man gets so many place name pronunciations wrong, especially when the channel is about names! Poor effort

[petlamb]

Lol Tyne and "where". It's pronounced Tyne and "Weir"

[cb-gill]

This video is very interesting. I'm from Barbados and as you may know, many parts of our island are named after parts of the UK. So learning of the origins and meanings of these names are interesting.

I'm looking forward to you covering the other parts of the U.K.

Keep up the good work!

[oswald]

The Humber isn't actually that close to Northumberland, it's actually in the south of modern day Yorkshire. This is because Northumberland used to control much more land than is part of its modern day territory. Pretty much all land from coast to coast between the River Humber and Lothian.

[kiwiSTV]

The Mersey is the historic boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire, not Wales, that’s the Dee.

[tristacker]

God help us when he tries to pronounce Welsh county names.

[webspaghetti]

Was this made with one of those automated text to voice things? It's the only explanation for someone from England mispronouncing Derby.

[Sarah-ndgy]

I gave up. Your mispronunciations of place names would be barely forgivable if an American was doing this video, but for an Englishman its just shocking, particularly when you are here to explain what the place names mean

[eoghanbannon-wright]

Yes I've been waiting long for this video that I suggested I'm very happy that you listened. Thanks Patrick :)

[Chebab-Chebab]

I'm worried about how he'll pronounce Kent.

[benjaminoverton]

Sorry Patrick, but you got a few pronunciations wrong:
Derbyshire/Derby - Dar-bee
Tyne and Wear - Tyne and Weir
Berkshire - Bark-shire
Otherwise, great video. Thanks!

[andythompson]

A pity that an Englishman was unable to pronounce all the names properly.

[cketts]

Watching this, I wasn’t altogether sure the narrator actually came from The way Derbyshire and
Berkshire was said was wrong! It’s ‘barkshire’ and Also the narrator said that (I think it was when he got as far as Leicestershire) he said that ‘now we come to a county with ‘cester’ in it but he had already had Worcester. And then we have Tyne and Wear...which he pronounced like ‘where’ and it should be ‘wee-err’. The narrator’s accent was slightly ‘put on’ as well as though trying to sound posh. All very

[AlisonBryen]

I've never heard Wolverhampton been referred to as a popular city before! For the record Wolverhampton is historically part of Staffordshire.

Birmingham and Coventry are historically part of Warwickshire.