Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by shaftoe on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:46PM
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Southern US here. It's not Worchestersher sauce?
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Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by onei on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:14PM
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Bicester (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.
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by fatboy on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:39PM
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I 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).
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by dkdbejwi383 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:07PM
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I thought “babby’s yed” was a Wigan thing
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by bregma on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:09PM
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With smack barm pea wet?
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by skykooler on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:37PM
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Think of it as being Worce-ster-shire, not Wor-ces-ter-shire.
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by zinckiwi on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:54PM
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Pronounced “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.”
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by Symbiote on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:33PM
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The audio on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcester and 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.
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by euroderf on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:34PM
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Wooster-sheer
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by celticninja on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:07PM
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Wooster-shur
Re:What’s the Difference Between American English and Britis...
by kingcharles on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:53PM
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I would go one step further - I always pronounced it Wooster-shuh, even while living in the West Country where the R is normally elongated.