shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1685arrow-down112
arrow-up1673arrow-down1imageI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksshderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 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-up1·7 days agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoI second this pronunciation.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 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-up2·edit-26 days 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”.
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?
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”.