shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1841arrow-down114
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minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoI hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.
minus-squareMY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 hours 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 hours agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours 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-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoI second this pronunciation.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
Wooster-shire
I hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.
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 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 second this pronunciation.
Wait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?