shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1971arrow-down118cross-posted to: itsme@lemm.ee
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minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 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
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