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i hate the hell island known as the uk so much and all of its issues past, present and future

but goddamn if nothing else gives me more joy than americans trying their best to figure out how the fuck to pronounce the near nonsensical place names here

especially when they're tripping up over basic concepts like "-shire"

which they insist on pronouncing like its a separate word "shy-er"

but in a place name its just. "sher".

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@avie english place names seem to have been subject to some kind of hyper-lenition that the rest of the language wasn't
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