English counties explained

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[JayForeman]

Stick around til the very end of this video... I promise it's worth it!

[dyent]

"Yorkshire isn't a place, Yorkshire is a state of mind."

I'm from Yorkshire, and that Mighty Boosh quote always stuck with me.

[SwitchbackSylveon]

Yorkshire Tea is grown in Equatorial Yorkshire, the locals seem to want to call it Kenya but we all know it's Equatorial Yorkshire

[flyingsheep]

Just on a technicality,
1) the word sheriff actually comes from the shortening of the word shire-reeve (a reeve being a Anglo-Saxon local official)

2) counties were never ruled by counts, and count was never a English title. Count is the French/European version of earl, who ruled the shires at the time of the Norman invasion. Because they spoke French, they renamed the shires counties, as it was the equivalent term. This is also the reason why the female equivalent of earl is countess.

[domhuckle]

Did you hear about Yorkshire airways first flight?

A passenger asked "where are we headed?" and was told by the crew "why, we'll fly about for a bit and then land back in Yorkshire - why would anyone want to go anywhere else?" 😊

[scottspangler]

Leave it to jay to write a joke song that’s cut off, only for him to actually have a full song in the credits. Love this stuff

[katherinegrant]

As well as being the smallest county in England, Rutland also has the claim to fame of being the last English county to open a McDonald's. It didn't have one until November 2020.

[janisila]

the way Mark says "different" at 7:11 kills me every time

[benry]

I do actually wish they had done more to teach counties in school. Map geography is actually more useful then a lot of what we did learn in geography

[irighterotica]

"What's going on?"
"We're doing Map Men."

Idk why, but that cracked me up so much. You guys are great.

[zmeganz]

My fiancé is British and I’m moving over in a couple months.
He spent so long trying to explain counties to me. I was so confused by it all. Too bad that he didn’t know about this video. Could’ve saved him a couple hours 😂

[undeadgoat]

As an American I realized recently when I started playing more games on maps that I knew tons of names of English counties and cities from books and stuff but had no idea where most of them were, other than like London and Yorkshire.

[JayForeman]

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[Ghiaman]

8:23 The ukelele smashing wasn't because Mark wanted Jay to stop singing, but that he'd been reminded that Rutland still exists

[christopherwebb]

Kentucky used to have laws that made it really easy for locals to split off and form their own counties if they didn't like how the county they were in was being run. That's why Kentucky has more counties (120) than any other US state, despite it only being medium size in area and on the small side in population. When it was first granted statehood, Kentucky had a grand total of three counties.

Now you should make videos about Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, since they are DIFFERENT as made clear in the video.

[ShortHax]

Can’t wait for them to try to pinpoint and pronounce Welsh county names in another video

[Anaguma]

M: "What's going on?"
J: "We're doing Map Men."

I do not know why that is so funny.

[skutraj]

Moved to the UK 12 years ago and every time someone confirmed my address in the first year, I was horrendously confused 😂

I believed we were in Manchester, got corrected to Greater Manchester, but wrote Cheshire at the end of the address (no mention of Manchester). And the postcode is Warrington…

[BMH]

I was born in The West Riding of Yorkshire, went to my first school in The East Riding, which then some politicians claim became part of Humberside in my third year, and then East Yorkshire - I only moved down t'road! Now live in ancestral home of 'The Ridings'.