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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it's more like "shuh".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, Tolkien was English. He didn't mean "Shire" to be pronounced like we Americans do it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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

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