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I have heard Gloucestersha Kense but usually it is shur especially locally when it is more shuurre (more drawn out and Gloucester is Glawstuuurre.

As I said earlier, I live in Barkshur which is one of the Shire counties. :-D

I'm so glad the fact that 'shire isn't always added to counties was explained to me.

I mean, I could have written 'Hantsshire', Huntsshire or even Lancsshire!

Oh yes - sometimes they are shortened even more - isn't that interesting - how many of us were unaware of that?

I use 'muth' in English names, but 'mouth' in Scottish.
Could be because I spent my first school years in Scotland, the latter in England.

Kense - she's spelt Worcester wrong!!!!!
She's put an 'h' in - Worchester :-S

No one here says Sha then. Apparently that is the posh pronunciation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3KJB6CuJA at about 15 mins 45 secs.

In Australia, the word is pronounced Shyer, a local government entity which is not a town or a city.

For example I live in the Shire of Harvey and the neighbouring council is the City of Bunbury.

Lancashire Yorkshire. Wiltshire .Lanarkshire. Herefordshire.

I say SHUR at the end of a county such as Carmarthenshire (Carmarthenshur).

But if saying SHIRE ( as in a Shire Horse) I would say SHYER

I am originally from BuckinghamSHEER , and have always pronounced the shires as sheers. Never shire as that would be 'doing a Hyacinth' (Bucket)) ;-)

Nottingham,Cambridge.Glos,Perth.Ayr . ,etc Scheer.

but would say of the Shires,,,,,,,not Scheers

I’m an eclectic mix having lived in four different houses in different counties by age 5. I had lived in Hounslow, Hook, Ashley and Edinburgh by age five and my parents are Hertfordshire and Ayrshire born. Both of them and therefore me also pronounce it shur

I'm from Lancashire .......... and still say Lancashur ..... and Yorkshure

I have a little laugh when I hear people over hear, especially Americans, say Lancashyre. It sounds so wrong!

As for Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire ..... the longer words .......... they can really be mangled on this side of the pond!

Shire is Shire

Andys mum....re "mouth" I always say "muth"
And yes up in Scotland they do say "mouth" and I always think it doesn't sound correct..lol that's the English in me I think.

Florence in the hebrides :-D

Ooh - following on from what I said earlier - just realised I say 'shyre' when I say 'Buckinghamshire'.
Definitely a case of the longer the name, the more likely I'll pronounce it 'shyre' :-D

I was brought up in the South and tend to say "shur". When I moved to Scotland I noticed that the Scots all say "Shyre" and they also pronounce place names with "mouth" in them as "mouth" whereas I say "muth" as in Portsmouth/Portsmuth or Bournemouth/Bournemuth.

I hadn't thought about it, having moved a lot I've got used to hearing variations.

But i find I say "shur" unless for some reason I am talking about Perthshire when I say Perthshyre, the same for 'The Shire' in LOTR :-D

Sitting here saying them to myself I am pretty sure I always say Shur. I did read somewhere that Gloucestershire was one of the most difficult counties to pronounce for people. Probably why it is often shortened to Glos.

I originate from Hampshire and yes when I say it it is 'shur'. I might say Devonshire (shur) But don't think I have ever said somersetshire. or dorsetshire.

I was brought up in sowf London not Norf London. I now live in Barkshur near Oxfordshur.