shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1970arrow-down118cross-posted to: itsme@lemm.ee
arrow-up1952arrow-down1imageI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksshderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square88linkfedilinkcross-posted to: itsme@lemm.ee
minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months 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-up6·6 months agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoI second this pronunciation.
minus-squareKrauerkinglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 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-up2·edit-26 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-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squarePsychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 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-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 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”.
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
I hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.