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

We’ve been watching a terrific crime drama set in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, called Shetland. All of the people on the show are from Scotland. Some of them, may actually be from Lerwick for real, but I’m not sure.

Most of the characters pronounce the word as Ler-ick, leaving out the w in the middle. A few of the characters (including the voice over announcer for the Lerwick Ferry) pronounce the word as Ler-Wick.

We leave the closed captioning sub-titles on all the time now, even when we are watching English language shows (many of them set in the U.K.) because you can really pick up more of the dialogue when you are reading it, as well as hearing it, and we’ve learned some new terms. That’s how I learned the lovely word bairns, meaning children.

Those of you who live(d) in the U.K., how do you pronounce Lerwick?