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    12 months ago

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

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      22 months 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