How to pronounce yorkshire and all place with shire endings?!

Hi, that's just English for you, some people are still arguing about the pronounciation of some place names here!

The 'shire' parts of the counties are pronounced 'sheer' hence York'sheer', Lincoln'sheer' etc.

what about Edinburgh? why it is pronounced as 'burra' not burg like Pittsburg? Just asking

Well, Edinburgh was there first so you could ask why isn't Pittsburgh pronounced burra instead of burg!

I'm not sure why exactly. British names can be quite strange as Britain has been settled by a large number of different races and groups at different times, so place names often reflect a large population in the past from another country, with another language. Everything just blend

For not british people (like myself) the pronouciation of many British name is odd since we are used to American names and worse than that as nona the brit pointed out are the scottish names.

for example "Ian" is a person's name. I will be very surprised if a person can pronouce it correctly without having listened to it first.

Hello Mahmood,
Once you get into that(British vernaculars, and accents) *** knows that you can spend the rest of your life on them, so pull out, if you can. Cheers.

I seriously think worcestershire should be spelt wustasheer...it would make life a lot easier and keep people from thinking im mad when they ask me where im moving and i say "whorecestershiier"

If you wanted to spell Worcestershire it would have to be wusstushu (schwa)

I'd say Wuusta sh ear (not sounding the final R)

Interesting that we pronounce it in different ways ourselves, and yet feel that non-English speakers should be able to pronounce it "correctly"!

Well...and don't forget the name of the sauce. That is spelt in the same way but I would say 'Wooster'.