How do you folks from the U.K. pronounce Lerwick (as in Lerwick, Shetland)?

How do you folks from the U.K. pronounce Lerwick (as in Lerwick, Shetland)?
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By the way, I absolutely adore Scottish accents. I know he would beg to differ, but one of our members has an accent that sounds similar, at least to me with my American ears, although he says his accent is not similar at all to those of folks in Scotland. Either way, he sounds wonderful.
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