• MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee
    11·
    2 years ago

    Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it’s more like “shuh”.

    • klemptor
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          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”.

      • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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