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British city names are hard. El Salvador, the country were I lived has one of the highest consumptions of Lea and Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce. You'll find a
by el-salvador 5y ago
British city names are hard.
El Salvador, the country were I lived has one of the highest consumptions of Lea and Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce.
You'll find a bottle of it on every local restaurant table and probably in most homes.
Yet no one knows how to pronounce it, most people will just call it 'Salsa Inglesa' (English Sauce), or 'Salsa Perrins' (Perrins Sauce).
I've never heard anyone say "Woustersher sauce" here.
- shaftoe 5y agoSouthern US here. It's not Worchestersher sauce?
- zinckiwi 5y agoPronounced “Wooster-sher”, though commonly you drop the “shire” for just “Wooster”. (That’s a short “woo” like in “wool”, not “woo” as in a romantic interest.) “Wooster sauce.”
- celticninja 5y agoWooster-shur
- kingcharles 5y agoI would go one step further - I always pronounced it Wooster-shuh, even while living in the West Country where the R is normally elongated.
- onei 5y agoBicester (Bister) and Gloucester (Gloster) are another couple of gotchas off the top of my head, and it's not like it even stops with places with *cester in the name.
- fatboy 5y agoI lived for a bit in a tiny town called Barnoldswick (stress on the "nolds"), but anyone from the area calls it "Barlick"! (stress on the "bar"). The accent here means that the phrase "pork pie" becomes "poo-wuk paaah" (stress on "poo" and "paaah") and the related steak-and-kidney-pie (which is served upside-down) was called a "babby's edd" (although I'm not sure if that's actually from nearby Bolton and is less about pronunciation I guess).
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoI thought “babby’s yed” was a Wigan thing
- bregma 5y agoWith smack barm pea wet?
- Symbiote 5y agoThe audio on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcester https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcester and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcestershire https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcestershire is correct (it says it's American, but it's the same in British). Leicester (in Leicestershire) is a larger English city with the "-cester" suffix, meaning a Roman fort. The name is used in the US as a personal or family name: Lester. Where the pronunciation is "ch", it's also spelt that way, as in Manchester.
- euroderf 5y agoWooster-sheer
- skykooler 5y agoThink of it as being Worce-ster-shire, not Wor-ces-ter-shire.
- ghaff 5y ago>British city names are hard. Which are also commonly used throughout New England in particular. Google Maps still butchers a lot of the pronunciation although it's better than it used to be. (I live about 15 minutes north of a Worcester and even closer to a Leominster which also isn't pronounced like you or apparently Google would expect.)
- watersb 5y agoScituately!
- justinlloyd 5y ago> Leominster Well that depends... Leo-minster, Lem-stuh, Leemunster, Lomunster, Lominster, Lominser... New England vs England vs the street in Derby (Darby, not Derby), vs the posh street outside of Bristol. Paris in France, is "Paree." Paris in Florida is "paris." Perris in California is "Pa-rees" or "Pe-riss" and sometimes "Paris" depending on the age of the person speaking, but that street named Lyon over in Hemet, just East or Perris, (He-met according to Google but Hemmet or 'emmet according to the locals) in California is Lee-on, Lee-yon, or, as one local said, "Lion, and why are you trying to be all fancy?" but is written as "Lyon" and was not named for the city in France but for the construction company that built the area. Worcestershire is Wurstuh, Wurst-uh-shur, Wurst-uh-shuh, Wurst-er-shuh, Wor-ster-shire depending on where in the UK you are. My local UK dialect, a combination of the bad side of Grangetown outside of Carddiff (Dad) & BBC given English (Mum) so my pronunciation is, and always has been, "wurster-shuh." Today I learned that El Salvador calls Worstershire Sauce as "Salsa Inglesa" and I shall now use that just to confuse people. I love local pronunciations because it makes me aware that our languages are continuously evolving.
- ghaff 5y ago> Leominster Leo-minster. That's pretty much Google. Local is something more along the lines of leh-minster. (Or maybe Leh-minstuh though you don't really get the Southie dropped r's in this area of the state.)
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- duckmysick 5y agoSome American places have peculiar pronunciation, especially if you're not from around there: Illinois, Arkansas, Spokane, Raleigh, and my absolute favorite Bexar County in Texas.
- rfreedman 5y agoNew Jersey / Pennsylvania (US) here... I gave up long ago and just call it "what's this here sauce".