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Lord, he might as well be USian.

That name has 3 syllables, the way I was raised to say it.

How about you Brits?

It's pronounced:
Wor-shest-cher

No; it's: WOOST-er-sheer

eta: to correct my phonetic pronunciation.

I am right, as usual:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/ ... estershire

It's pronounced "Worcestershire".

Gob wrote:It's pronounced "Worcestershire".

Yeah, it's pronounced just like it's spelled...

Just like "Thames"....

bigskygal wrote:I am right, as usual:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/ ... estershire

Not so fast little grasshopper. That's wrong. I'm not sure how to spell 'wuss" (rhymes with puss) but it is correctly

wuss- ter- shir. Not sheer. It's like the ending of New Hampshire (which is not New Hamp sheer)

So, you bluff fails. I see your one pathetic bid and raise you two more





http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=worcestershire

Sorry Meade, but in jolly old New England where I was raised - and where I agree, we say New Hampshire as a 'sure' sound, it is pronounced the way the Merriam example I posted rendered it. The shire is 'sheer', like curtains, not 'sure'.

There is this thing called dialect that might be influencing your opinion, but mine is right for all parts of New England where I have lived.

But it sure ain't pronounced LJ's way. Maybe in crazy Cali?

... and there's always New Hamp-shaah.

There is this thing called dialect that might be influencing your opinion

I rarely have opinions - only the facts, ma'am. It's not dialect - it's English as she be spoke in Englaterre. We know how to pronounce "Worcester" - the city/region for which the sauce is named - and we know how to pronounce "shire". As in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and especially Hampshire (which we had first so we know how it be spoke in proper Anglish).

Worcestershire is properly pronounced the way educated English people pronounce it (not the toffs - God knows they probably call it Fanshaw*). Americans do this "shy-er" thing all over the place - bless 'em all - but it's still er.... rather dim of them.

In the Hobbit and LOTR "the Shire" is of course pronounced in the more ancient manner.

You say Bah-ston; I say Boss-ton. Some say 'awlins and others New Aw-lee-annes. Others again, n'awlins. That's dialect, I suspect. I bow to the natives who know how to say it.

*Fanshaw by the way is really spelled Featherstonehaugh. And don't get into an argument with Civil War students as to how Taliaferro should be pronounced.

Wuss-ter-sher

But where I'm from we call the sauce simply Worcester leaving off the shire.

I don't really care if my pronunciation is correct or not (I believe I use wuss-ter-sher), just please make sure (not sher) to add some into my Bloodie!

What's-this-here sauce.....

I usually say "its the bottle next to the A-One".

here its pronounced worster or Wooster, as in Worcester county.

we say sheer for the sauce , shire for the towns, as in ironshire, sher for the state as in new hampshire

oysters are either orsters or arsters, they come from the worter or warter, depending on where you are on the worter

Read the previous posts. Don't tell me how you pronounce it "here". Pronounce it correctly (clue: how the people who know do it). I will then promise to pronounce "Houston" the way natives do.

Whose town?