@[email protected] to Comic [email protected]English • 2 months agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1957cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoWait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 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