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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:
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Originally posted by DanceSettee:
neither..i saw shroosbree Ninja
That's pretty much the number one choice hun Smiler The way I pronounce it. It's hard to put it in writing...


it's either .

shrew to rhyme with hugh pugh and barney mcgrew
shroes to rhyme with whores
shroos to rhyme with shoes


I took your poll to be asking about the first two, whilst I say the third.


it's getting confusing now Crazy
DanceSettee
quote:
Originally posted by DanceSettee:
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:
quote:
Originally posted by DanceSettee:
neither..i saw shroosbree Ninja
That's pretty much the number one choice hun Smiler The way I pronounce it. It's hard to put it in writing...


it's either .

shrew to rhyme with hugh pugh and barney mcgrew
shroes to rhyme with whores
shroos to rhyme with shoes


I took your poll to be asking about the first two, whilst I say the third.


it's getting confusing now Crazy


Now you are confusing me! Laugh
I said the 2nd way but pronounce it as your 3rd way..????

Never heard it to rhyme with Whore.
Cosmopolitan
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Originally posted by Baz:
My dad was from there, and I think he called it Shrewsbury.... but I could be wrong.


On tv recently, the presenters of a programme were talking about this, and they asked people who lived in Shrewsbury for the correct pronunciation. The answer was the people who live there say Shrowsbury and most other people say Shrewsbury.
B
Second one but I have read that the name has a very complicated etymology - all three of Shrewsbury, Shropshire and Salop come from the same root:

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Shrewsbury
has one of the most complex developments of English place names and illustrates the changes wrought in Old English words by Anglo-Norman scribes who could not pronounce them. Recorded 1016 as Scrobbesbyrig, it originally may have meant "the fortified place in (a district called) The Scrub." The initial consonant cluster was impossible for the scribes, who simplified it to sr-, then added a vowel to make it easier still. The name was also changed by Anglo-Norman loss or metathesis of liquids in words containing -l-, -n-, or -r- (also evident in the derivatives of O.Fr. Berengier "bear-spear" -- O.H.G. Beringar -- name of one of the paladins in the Charlemagne romances and a common given name in England 12c. and 13c., which has come down in surnames as Berringer, Bellanger, Benger, etc.). Thus Sarop- became Salop- and in the 12c. and 13c. the overwhelming spelling in government records was Salopesberie, which accounts for the abbreviation Salop for the modern county. During all this, the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants (as opposed to the French scribes) still pronounced it properly, and regular sound evolutions probably produced a pronunciation something like Shrobesbury (which turns up on a 1327 patent roll). After a predictable -b- to -v- (a vowel in the Middle Ages) to -u- shift, the modern spelling begins to emerge 14c. and is fully established 15c.


So this means I think it's OK to call it either.

(As a quick PS my favourite etymology of a place name is Nottingham)
littleleicesterfox

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