How to pronounce shire
Listen to shire in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“shire” in real sentences
283 clips in the index · 7 American · 193 British · 11 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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and intra-shire competition.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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can you tell people what is the shire free church yeah so the shire free church
The Voluntaryist Rebel · hear it here
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live in a fantasy setting where it be the Shire give me the Shire any day
MooLer · hear it here
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and ate food and were like coasting around in the shire now i'm frodoing the shire
Analog Game Studies · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shire. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.