(19 Sep 2014, 7:59 pm)Marcus wrote Hate people like that. An English Teacher at my school was brought up in Cambridgeshire (you must say 'Shire' on the end,) and always talks down to people using words we can't understand. For example;
'Don't you dare challenge me in that rude manner, young lady!'
People like that get on my nerves...
Far as I am concerned I pronounce words the way I speak, -shire is -sher i.e Yorksher, Lincolnsher...I used to know a posh woman who pronounced the word sausage as sor-sage and garage as ga-rarj lol