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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

It's pronounced "Worcestershire".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Woo-stah-sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Woo shir shir shir sauce

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

I just saw a sign this morning that said "Irish Wristwatch - now you know you can't pronounce it". The sign was right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

There's a British surname, Featherstonhaugh. Many of the people with it pronounce it "Fanshaw."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

Worcestershire? I don't even know her

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I hear "Were-Chest-Sure" around here.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it's more like "shuh".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that's reasonably correct?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I second this pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

war-stir-shar

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You wanna level up? Try Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Brzhen chish chick evich.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago

please wait while I grab this electric fence

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Entry level Polish name, simplified.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does webtoon pay comic artists now? Or is that watermark there for no reason

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

There's little visible name of the comic near it.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

What'd you call me?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

...ain't nothin to fuck with?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That bitch can wash her self

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Major Robert Thornbird: Our cameras saw some sort of weapon.

Jack O'Neill: Oh, well it's hard to say.

Major Robert Thornbird: Some sort of state secret?

Jack O'Neill: No. Just difficult to pronounce.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] sp3tr4l 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wooster Check Shire.

There, its wrong according to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

it's* wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Pffft. Hendo's is better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

My buddy has been watching too many redneck cooking videos and calls it "warsh-yer-sister" sauce.

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