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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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