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Originally Posted by Charlotte Innes
Northerners tend to lengthen syllables, don't they? And I think it IS Lanca-sheer, Jayne!
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It's just not that easy to generalise. I'm imagining lots of Yorkies at a football match chanting 'YAAARK-shuh! YAAAARK-shuh! YAAARK-shuh' (ad nauseam). It almost never rhymes with
hire, of course, unless the syllable stands alone - which is the mistake lots of uninitiated Americans make in my experience. I'm from Lincolnshire. to me, it ends
-sheer, but not to everybody. What would Queenie do?
-shuh? But so would Geoffrey Boycott, wouldn't he?