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.

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 blended into modern English. Place names are where this sort of thing is most noticable. For example 'chester' endings (as in Colchester, Chester, Manchester) usually show that it was an important settlement in Roman times.

Don't forget that Edinburgh is in Scotland, so it is probably the correct Scots/Gaelic pronounciation, which was/is a different language to English. This part is copied from a website by a lady called Dorothy Dunnett: Place names in Scotland are made up of elements from a number of different languages - Gaelic, Norse, Brithonic, Scots and Anglian. Gaelic names are common over much of the country with Norse being often seen in the north and west. Brithonic is seen in the south-west and in the north-east areas, often where the Picts were found, while Scots and Anglian are seen in the Lothians and Borders which were under Northumbrian control until the formation of the territory we know as Scotland in the 11th century

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

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