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> "wooster sauce" "That's just incorrect. It's pronounced "wooster-shuh". The double-O is short, as in "book". Worcestershire Sauce is sometimes simply called

> "wooster sauce" "That's just incorrect. It's pronounced "wooster-shuh". The double-O is short, as in "book". Worcestershire Sauce is sometimes simply called "woosters", as in "a dash of woosters". > Frome in Somerset is one of the hardest place names to pronounce Hardly. It's pronounced "froom". That's not so hard.

bee_rider 3y ago
There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh.
- nobody9999 3y ago
  >There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh. And there's a Gloucester[0] (pronounced 'Gloster' or, more likely in MA 'Glostah') there as well. And there's one[1] in Virgnia too, (Wikipedia says it's pronounced 'Gloster', but I don't know the VA accent well enough to know if that's locally correct). There are other similar place names around the US, mostly on the eastern seaboard, for obvious reasons, as well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia
chriswarbo 3y ago
> The double-O is short, as in "book" Bad example, since some accents pronounce "book" like "kook" (not like "suck") ;)
- denton-scratch 3y ago
  Fair do's; scousers indeed pronounce "book" as "bewk".
  - mnw21cam 3y ago
    One of my ambitions in life is to make a pronunciation guide using example words that are pronounced differently by different people.
    - ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet Also, this scene from Archer cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZrMfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZrMfs
ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
I got Frome from here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249 I agree that it's not tricky to pronounce, but the difficulty is pronouncing it correctly. Worcestershire sauce can be called "wooster-shuh sauce" or "wooster sauce" or as you say, "woosters".

bee_rider 3y ago

There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh.

nobody9999 3y ago
>There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh. And there's a Gloucester[0] (pronounced 'Gloster' or, more likely in MA 'Glostah') there as well. And there's one[1] in Virgnia too, (Wikipedia says it's pronounced 'Gloster', but I don't know the VA accent well enough to know if that's locally correct). There are other similar place names around the US, mostly on the eastern seaboard, for obvious reasons, as well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia

chriswarbo 3y ago

> The double-O is short, as in "book" Bad example, since some accents pronounce "book" like "kook" (not like "suck") ;)

denton-scratch 3y ago
Fair do's; scousers indeed pronounce "book" as "bewk".
- mnw21cam 3y ago
  One of my ambitions in life is to make a pronunciation guide using example words that are pronounced differently by different people.
  - ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet Also, this scene from Archer cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZrMfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZrMfs

ndsipa_pomu 3y ago

I got Frome from here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249 I agree that it's not tricky to pronounce, but the difficulty is pronouncing it correctly. Worcestershire sauce can be called "wooster-shuh sauce" or "wooster sauce" or as you say, "woosters".