How do you pronounce it??? I pronounce it as it sounds but some do not.
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The first one
Second one.
I say the first one 
First one
Oooh, 70% agree so far. More votes please folks 
I don't think I have ever said that word 
According to wiki I am wrong. I wonder what I'm muddling it with then?
I would say the first one.
Oh really? I will go look there. Some people do say Shroes-bury actually, and I just wondered what people on here said....quote:Originally posted by electric6:
According to wiki I am wrong. I wonder what I'm muddling it with then?
Sh-rows-bury
neither..i saw shroosbree
That's pretty much the number one choice hunquote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:
neither..i saw shroosbree
The way I pronounce it. It's hard to put it in writing...According to Wiki, Shrews-bury (or shroooos-bury) is the correct way now. Some still pronounce it Shrows-bury though. Each to their own I guessquote:Originally posted by Baz:
My dad was from there, and I think he called it Shrewsbury.... but I could be wrong.
quote:Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:That's pretty much the number one choice hunquote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:
neither..i saw shroosbree
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
Shrewsbury but my husband pronounces it the other way.
The 2nd way. 
Am I posh or chavvy?
Am I posh or chavvy?
Poshquote:Originally posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:
The 2nd way.
Am I posh or chavvy?
Second one .
.quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:That's pretty much the number one choice hunquote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:
neither..i saw shroosbree
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
Now you are confusing me!
I said the 2nd way but pronounce it as your 3rd way..????
Never heard it to rhyme with Whore.
quote:Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:Poshquote:Originally posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:
The 2nd way.
Am I posh or chavvy?
Innit.
It depends which side of the river you come from apparently - english side or welsh side.
In wales they pronounce it shrewsbury . I am from England and call it shroesbury
My ex English teacher went to shrewsbury school and pronounced it shroesbury
In wales they pronounce it shrewsbury . I am from England and call it shroesbury
My ex English teacher went to shrewsbury school and pronounced it shroesbury
There is no third way to pronounce it - live 40 mins from shroesbury
I think I say both. 
quote: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.
I live 35 miles from there and I call it Shrewsbury.
Remember its the taming of the Shrew, not Shrow. lol
Remember its the taming of the Shrew, not Shrow. lol
couldn't have put it better sheepquote:Originally posted by Sheep In a Jeep:
I live 35 miles from there and I call it Shrewsbury.
Remember its the taming of the Shrew, not Shrow. lol
First one.
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:
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)
quote: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)
The second one
2nd one as thats the way they say it on the tv.
