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	:Ah. I began to think it had to do with the tendency to drop final "r"s in England. I of course wouldn't, nor someone from Somerset either, I believe. Still, the same "r"-dropper wouldn't pronounce it in ''Lancaster'', either, would he? Brings me back to my hope for audio files for a pronouncing guide. (Phonetic alphabets are fine, except no one can read them.) --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 12:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)		:Ah. I began to think it had to do with the tendency to drop final "r"s in England. I of course wouldn't, nor someone from Somerset either, I believe. Still, the same "r"-dropper wouldn't pronounce it in ''Lancaster'', either, would he? Brings me back to my hope for audio files for a pronouncing guide. (Phonetic alphabets are fine, except no one can read them.) --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 12:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

	The audio book is Lank-Er		The audio book is Lank-Er. (unsigned comment by [[User:Tanzanite Dragoness\|Tanzanite Dragoness]] 14 Jun 2018)

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	:Ah. I began to think it had to do with the tendency to drop final "r"s in England. I of course wouldn't, nor someone from Somerset either, I believe. Still, the same "r"-dropper wouldn't pronounce it in ''Lancaster'', either, would he? Brings me back to my hope for audio files for a pronouncing guide. (Phonetic alphabets are fine, except no one can read them.) --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 12:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)		:Ah. I began to think it had to do with the tendency to drop final "r"s in England. I of course wouldn't, nor someone from Somerset either, I believe. Still, the same "r"-dropper wouldn't pronounce it in ''Lancaster'', either, would he? Brings me back to my hope for audio files for a pronouncing guide. (Phonetic alphabets are fine, except no one can read them.) --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 12:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

			The audio book is Lank-Er

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What's the pronunciation?
--[[Special:Contributions/68.96.79.79|68.96.79.79]] 18:55, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't think anybody really knows. (I floated the idea of a pronouncing guide a few weeks ago to no response at all.) I think of it as ''Lank-er'', rather than as the old French Inquisitor since their Quirmian isn't likely very good in Lancre. Probably we could accept Stephen Briggs's pronunciation, but I haven't heard any of the Witches series. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 19:24, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I say it in my head as Lan-ker, but if the r is not pronounced it makes the adjective lancrastian problematic, so maybe Lank-ruh.--[[User:Attercop|Attercop]] 20:10, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

:Why problematic? It's not Lancastruh, either. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Because LancRastian does have an R, as in Lancrastian Army Knife. How do avoid sounding the R in the middle--[[User:Attercop|Attercop]] 21:51, 24 June 2009 (UTC)?

:I'm a step behind, here; ''why'' do we avoid pronouncing the "r"? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:04, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm not explaining well. The adjective Pterry has derived for things of Lancre is Lancrastian. Lancrastian really has to be pronounced lank-ras-ti-yun, with a sounded R in the second syllable. As this adjective has a sounded R then it makes me think Lancre should have a sounded R, hence lank-ruh not lank-er.--[[User:Attercop|Attercop]] 06:51, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

:Ah. I began to think it had to do with the tendency to drop final "r"s in England. I of course wouldn't, nor someone from Somerset either, I believe. Still, the same "r"-dropper wouldn't pronounce it in ''Lancaster'', either, would he? Brings me back to my hope for audio files for a pronouncing guide. (Phonetic alphabets are fine, except no one can read them.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 12:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)