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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".
I'm from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that's reasonably correct?
I second this pronunciation.
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.
I dk where you Americans are getting the "sure" part from, it's much more like "she-er" or if your more northern it'd be a bit more like "sher".
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
I hear "Were-Chest-Sure" around here.