It's pronounced "Worcestershire".
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Well the guy that invented it says it's "Worcestershire" so....
We just call it wooster
Worcestershire? I don't even know her
I just saw a sign this morning that said "Irish Wristwatch - now you know you can't pronounce it". The sign was right.
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Grzegorz.
Okay but...what?
Entry level Polish name, simplified.
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Major Robert Thornbird: Our cameras saw some sort of weapon.
Jack O'Neill: Oh, well it's hard to say.
Major Robert Thornbird: Some sort of state secret?
Jack O'Neill: No. Just difficult to pronounce.
Woo-stah-sure.
I'm from England and wouldn't pronounce it like this at all. The "woo" sounds like you're a ghost or something and the "sure" part is just outright wrong.
It's really hard express through text, but I'd say "wuss-ter-she-er" (the wuss part is pronounced the same way as if you're refering to a cowardly person), is much closer. Regional accents could make it different tho.
It gets ‘em in the right ballpark, at least, and away from confidently saying “Wore-sess-tur-shah-yer”, so I’m good with it.
Now try the Welsh name for it: Swydd Gaerwrangon.
Wooster-shire
Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it's more like "shuh".
I'm from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that's reasonably correct?
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I hear "Were-Chest-Sure" around here.
Wooster Check Shire.
There, its wrong according to everyone.
it's* wrong
Unintentional maximal wrongness unlocked!
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Woo shir shir shir sauce
Wash your sister.
That bitch can wash her self
There's a British surname, Featherstonhaugh. Many of the people with it pronounce it "Fanshaw."
Does webtoon pay comic artists now? Or is that watermark there for no reason
There's little visible name of the comic near it.
Ooohhhhh! I actually didn't see that. so they're on webtoons under that name?
Yeah, I looked it up before commenting.
My buddy has been watching too many redneck cooking videos and calls it "warsh-yer-sister" sauce.
War. Chester. Fight me.
Don't forget the shire.
I genuinely don't understand why that's so hard for Americans so say.
In revenge we invented Arkansas.
and Illinois.
I've heard illi noise so many times I've given up on correcting it.
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It's not a common word for us and the phonetics don't match the pronunciation whatsoever.
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What's-this-here sauce
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