shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksshderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoDepends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it’s more like “shuh”.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days 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
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days 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-up0·edit-21 day 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-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoI second this pronunciation.
Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it’s more like “shuh”.
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
I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
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”.
I second this pronunciation.