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Worcestershire

I grew up in western Mass...there was a town not far away called Worchester...but it was pronounced "Wooster." I use the same pronunciation for the Woostershire sauce. 😛
 
BoomerD said:
I grew up in western Mass...there was a town not far away called Worchester...but it was pronounced "Wooster." I use the same pronunciation for the Woostershire sauce. 😛
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woostasheah sauce

we also have leicester, gloucester, foxborough and dozens of others named after british places.
 
i always get shit from my sister for not saying Lancaster correctly.

my response is im not british so fuck off. :colbert:
 
OutHouse said:
i always get shit from my sister for not saying Lancaster correctly.

my response is im not british so fuck off. :colbert:
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Is that not German, due to all of the Pennsylvania "Dutch" living in Lancaster county?

I once lived on a Lancaster St in the Midwest, and tried using the correct lank-ess-ter pronunciation only to be met with blank stares...so I gave up and went back to the boring lan-cast-er
 
The Boston Dangler said:
woostasheah sauce

we also have leicester, gloucester, foxborough and dozens of others named after british places.
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Massachusetts also has a system of naming towns that is like a grab bag of common words:

1. A cardinal direction
2. Spring, Mash, Wal, Ham, Brook
3. Field, Burgh, Ton, Bridge, Wood, Land, Cester

Choose any combination. Easthampton? Sure. North Brookfield? Why not? Westmashtonhambrookbridgefieldcester? OK. And then, for good measure, ignore how it's spelled and pronounce it in a way that exists solely to confuse outsiders. Worcester... yeah, it sounds like Elmer Fudd talking about male chickens. You know, a rorcester?

Fucking Massachusetts.
 
In england, anywhere with the suffix 'cester' (or 'chester' or 'caster') is a former roman army camp (a castra), so the 'C' is a hard sound. but in the case of 'cester' the C isn't pronounced at all, instead the form is contracted to 'ster'
 
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ElFenix said:
In england, anywhere with the suffix 'cester' (or 'chester' or 'caster') is a former roman army camp (a castra), so the 'C' is a hard sound. but in the case of 'cester' the C isn't pronounced at all, instead the form is contracted to 'ster'
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Nerd.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Massachusetts also has a system of naming towns that is like a grab bag of common words:

1. A cardinal direction
2. Spring, Mash, Wal, Ham, Brook
3. Field, Burgh, Ton, Bridge, Wood, Land, Cester

Choose any combination. Easthampton? Sure. North Brookfield? Why not? Westmashtonhambrookbridgefieldcester? OK. And then, for good measure, ignore how it's spelled and pronounce it in a way that exists solely to confuse outsiders. Worcester... yeah, it sounds like Elmer Fudd talking about male chickens. You know, a rorcester?

Fucking Massachusetts.
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we also have lots of native names like cochituit, which i pronounce "co-chooch-a-toot"
 
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