Name: 9 Very British Words & How to Pronounce Them
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T23:46:28.000Z
Duration: 9 min 23 s
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Today I have a list of some very British words how to pronounce them, how to use them in context and, of course, what they mean.

Although these are very British words, in my opinion, they can be used in other forms of English, and you may find you hear these in American English.

I do find that these words in particular, I used a lot in the UK, and some of them would be considered to be extremely British.

And, of course, as always, Remember, the accent I teach when it comes to pronunciation is a modern RP accent.

The accent I use is very common in the south of England.

There are many other accents available and don't be afraid.

If you prefer them, let's get straight into the lesson.

The first word I want to talk about is one which people have been saying, Elliot, why haven't you taught this word yet?

It's such a common word in the UK, and to be honest, I don't really know why I haven't taught it.

The word is bloody, I guess I assume that all of you already knew this word because it's always associate it with the UK.

Maybe when something bad happens or something annoying, we also use it as an emphasize.

Er, use it to emphasize maybe a feeling or emotion, for example, or that film we watched last night.

Pronunciation is interesting because we have the up sound which I find about 90% of the students, no matter where they're from who joined my course, tend to have a problem with pronouncing This sounds on the sound is, uh, most of my students pronounce it as ah, so they'll say bloody instead of bloody.

The key is moving the sound more towards the middle back section of the mouth, so pulling the tongue back slightly so the middle of the tongue slightly pulls towards the lower section of the mouth.

But we're keeping it in that middle lower section towards the back again near the middle and the back up.

Another word I thought I'd talk about is the word scrap.

That would mean that let's say I have two dogs on their fighting, each other a physical fights.

I could also say that my friend went to a club last night on Dhere got into a scrap with someone outside, meaning they got into a fight.

They were having a scrap, so it means to have a physical fight scrap.

Another sound, which many students find quite difficult to pronounce when they join my course is the at sound.

Many of them pronounce it as a so they might say, scrap.

You will want to push your tongue forwards and down open your mouth nice and big and wide a.

So with this continent cluster at the beginning, we're producing the sound.

Then we're cutting out it out with a stick stick, and then we're adding another continent, so a third continent into this cluster scrap scrap scrap so you can have a scrap with someone which means to have a physical fight.

But the other form of a fight could be a row.

Now a row is when we have a vocal argument with somebody.

Usually it's just involving your mouth speaking, shouting at each other, for example, my friend called me last night on.

He told me he had a really bad row with his wife.

Okay, so a row or to be rowing eyes to have ah, vocal argument row.

Uh, many of my students will say row or Lau because they have difficulty pronouncing the letter R so it would be useful to learn how to pronounce that continent on also the how diff thong.

Then we moved to a round shape, uh, owl owl owl row.

I expect probably most of you know is Kupper copper.

Now, to have a cupper is to have a cup of tea is a very common expression here, For example, do you fancy a cup?

So here we have the up sound, which again were slightly pulling the tongue back.

So we're practicing that up on the for the Schwann sound.

The tongue is more in the middle of the mouth and we don't really do much with the mouth.

So, uh, look at how my mouth changes cup cup.

So it's just a short way of saying a cup of tea.

This is a word which we use in the UK, particularly the younger people would say.

You know, maybe Americans would say to make out right to make out with someone, we tend to say snog sound.

And then we're cutting it out with a no sound snark.

The op sound requires a round shape with the mouth.

Now, if something's a bit nuff Neff, then that means it's not very good, for example.

Just meaning it was a bit rubbish just wasn't very good again.

Rubbish is a common word, but I've spoken about that in the past on this channel.

So naff just means not that good to the key.

Here is the sound again tongue forwards and down Ah, and then finished with a push your top teeth on your bottom lip on push the air around and through your mouth on it should be unveil iced naff naff That was naff.

Knickers are the lower half of ladies underwear.

So the K is silent just like a knife or knackered, Which is another word I spoke about on the channel in the past to be very tired.

We start with a mm sound n tongue up against the top of the mouth and make the noise through your nose.