Glad you enjoyed my poem over on Met, Charlotte.
It's funny how we talk about the 'shires' but it's never pronounced 'shire' on the end of the counties. (Your "shuh" is a better way of writing it phonetically, and is closer than 'sher' to how it's mostly pronounced.)
I find such things fascinating too! (Some people would say we need to 'get out more'
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