shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1947arrow-down118
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minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 day agoDepends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it’s more like “shuh”.
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI do Woor-cest-er-sure. Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred “war-chest” sound. But the “C” seems unused by most.
minus-squareXIIIesq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 hours agoI dk where you Americans are getting the “sure” part from, it’s much more like “she-er” or if your more northern it’d be a bit more like “sher”.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoHe did As a standalone word it’s Shire as we say it, but put it at the end of a word and you pronounce it differently Lancashire is lanka-sheer, for example
Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it’s more like “shuh”.
I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
I second this pronunciation.
I do Woor-cest-er-sure.
Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred “war-chest” sound. But the “C” seems unused by most.
I dk where you Americans are getting the “sure” part from, it’s much more like “she-er” or if your more northern it’d be a bit more like “sher”.
Wait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
He did
As a standalone word it’s Shire as we say it, but put it at the end of a word and you pronounce it differently
Lancashire is lanka-sheer, for example