shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1736arrow-down116cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1720arrow-down1imageI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksshderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square42fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 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-up4·8 months agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoI second this pronunciation.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squarePsychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 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
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.
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