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Wooster-shire

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I hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.

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Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it’s more like “shuh”.

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I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?

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I second this pronunciation.

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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.

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

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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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