Though the influence of American TV in the UK means the word 'mall' is used fairly often as well. I have never heard a British person say 'strip mall', though; 'row of shops' would be used instead. A mall. Or a shopping centre or what its called.
A mall or shopping mall (called a shopping centre in Britain) is a very large building (or group of buildings) that contains a large number of stores and restaurants, sometimes a movie theater, and usually has plenty of space outside for parking: Sarah likes to hang out at the mall with her friends.
The pronunciation of it is usually different, in American and British English. In the UK, it's normally pronounced as "morl" (rhymes with the words or and more). Except, when pronouncing Pall Mall and The Mall. Those are normally pronounced "mal", like the letter a in the words trap and hat.
Short “a” sounds in both. “Pall” sounds the same as “pal” (friend) and “mall” sounds like “mal” in Spanish if you are familiar with it. Pall Mall is a street in London, so should be pronounced with British English pronunciation, not American, where they pronounce “mall” like “maul”.
The word 'mall' comes from a 16th-century Italian alley game that resembled croquet. It was called pallamaglio, or pall-mall in English; the alley on which the game was played came to be known as a 'mall'.
Regardless of which pronunciation you use, people will usually know which letter you're referring to! But, keep in mind that zed is technically the correct version in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand, and zee is technically correct in the United States.
The name. The name is derived from Pelle Melle, a game introduced by King Charles which was traditionally played in St. James's Park. Traffic was permitted on The Mall in 1887.
The term "mall" originally meant a place where people played pall-mall, a game similar to croquet. By the mid 1700s it had come to mean a tree-lined park where people went to walk and socialize.
Name. "Mall" is the most common name for these buildings in America, and "shopping center" is the most common name for them in the United Kingdom. The name "shopping center" is also sometimes used in America. Malls are also sometimes called plazas.
4. Holborn. This London tube station and area near Covent Garden presents us with the mother of all unpronounceable names – even British people who live in ACTUAL HOLBORN get the name wrong. It looks like it should be said as holl-born but the L and R are silent, and the O is said as more of a U instead.
It varies, England and the UK as a whole is full of accents and dialects, every 20 miles it supposedly changes. I for example would not always say the T naturally. We use whats called glottal stops in some accents which often eliminate sounds like the “T". Glottal stops appear all over.
Definition: A major shopping centre typically incorporating at least one full line department store, one or more full line discount department stores, one or more supermarkets and approximately 150 specialty shops. – Total gross lettable area retail ranges between 50,000 and 85,000 square metres.
Generally, they do, although 'h-dropping' has traditionally been a feature of some English regional accents, notably London, as you can hear in this song from 1960 sung by someone from the East End of London.
