shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months 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 · 4 months agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months 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-up0·4 months agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months 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-up0·4 months agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI second this pronunciation.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months 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-24 months 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-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.
Wooster-shire
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 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”.
I hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.