How do you pronounce Shrewsbury?

Was born there and family comes from there. We all say "Shrowsbury" but I have also heard some local people say the alternative.

Fortunately, I've never needed to say it! If I ever do, I think I will be tempted to slur that part of the word in such a way that the listener wouldn't be sure if I'd said shroo or shrow

I can't remember ever having the need to actually say "Shewsbury" but if I did ( I'm practicing now) it would be shoes -berry.

Beau champ or Beecham?

I live near and say Shroosbury

Shrow, went to boarding school there.

I was brought up in nearby Bridgnorth and we always used to Shrow.
Nearer to me now, is Happisburgh... and there's only one way to say that....

Shrowsbury I say but in midlands they say Shrewsbury....I think. What about scons or scownes?

I live in Shrewsbury and get annoyed when hearing it pronounced shroosbury or shrowsbury. Shrew shrew shrew! It's how it's spelt.

Yes, but if that is the case then Leominster should be Lee-oh-minster
and here are a few more:

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Our sat nav always pronounces our home town incorrectly!

jueperry, what's the difference between 'shroosbury' and 'shrewsbury'?

They're both 'oo' sounds to me!

Oops, I always call it ShrOVEsbury

Shrows.

I actually thought it was Shrovesbury. I've always called it that.

Eh? Why would anyone think it was pronounced with a 'v' in it...?

But why would you pronounce Stiffkey in Norfolk without the FFs? I can't remember the exact pronunciation but just that it's not as it looks

But adding a consonant is a bit different. There are lots of UK place names that aren't pronounced as they're spelled but Shrewsbury usually only has two possible pronunciations.

bellanonna I think it's pronounced 'Stewkey'. We had lunch in a pub there once, and the landlord told us!

Well, three now ( at least by two of us)

Yes, I remember now Greyduster. I learnt this on another thread courtesy of Granjura I believe.

Barminess!

Both my parents were stationed at Shawbury in the RAF during the war and they pronounced it as Shrow ( rhyming with show). It was only later in life I heard it as Shrewsbury (shrew - small mammal). English place names are a pronunciation minefield.

We used to go for a curry in Kharmah in Walsall until I saw it written as Caldmore .

We live near a village called Euxton (only one letter away from Euston) pronounced Exton.

Apparently "Shropshire did not exist until the tenth century, when Alfred the Great and his successors divided the country into administrative shires (a word derived from the Anglo-Saxon scir, meaning sphere of office).... The first mention of the Anglo-Saxon shire of Scrobbescire or Shropshire is in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle when, in the year 1006, King Ethelred the Unready, pursued by the Danes, 'passed over the Thames into Scrobbes-byrig-scire'."

From the book Cadfael Country by Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman.

Defo - Shrowsbury!

Then the most annoying one is Gillingham - this has to be Gill/Jill as in the name, definitely not gill as in a part of a fish
moleswife the train driver must have lost his way, as there is a Gillingham with a hard 'G' like the gill of a fish in Dorset
I worked with someone who came from there, and she was most emphatic about how it should be pronounced (with a Dorset accent!)