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#105574 06/16/03 12:27 AM
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Actually and anywayz ® ®, I guess most folks are more prone to pronounce the town WER-chester, rather than like the sauce. But you'll get corrected for that quick, too.

"Does the bus go to WORSE-te-sheer?" Hmmm...must've looked at the map too fast when I was knocking around Plymouth, huh?


#105575 06/16/03 12:30 AM
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the idear is... And my good friend refers to his wife as Reeterann.

this is not unknown in NYC, either.. sometimes we add a R, sometimes we drop it, and sometimes we do neither.. of course i can't think of a single example, because it all sounds normal to me.. except of course for the famous archie bunker one... turlit.. toilet- which i don't say, but i certain heard often enough as a kid, (and still hear from older NYer's)


#105576 06/16/03 09:56 AM
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Everyone in our neck of the woods

Yeah, well, turnpike or no yer still in New Jersey.

Ya kin get in free, but ya hafta pay to get out.


#105577 06/16/03 01:20 PM
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What about *your regional speech? I miss Jackie - I'm sure she'd have some interesting Kentuckyisms. But I do hope she is having fun tootlin' around Scotland and Ireland!


#105578 06/17/03 07:51 AM
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Jackie and I met up and had dinner (she had "supper", but) in a pub in a little town called Orlingbury last night. She's off down into deepest, darkest Wales today ...


#105579 06/17/03 11:03 PM
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It was always "Wustesher" Sauce at our place and always on the table.


#105580 06/17/03 11:24 PM
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Well, as a resident of Worcester (Massachusetts) for the last 30 years I can tell you that old-time Mass residents, speaking Boston, pronounce it with no R at all ("Woo -stah"; that's "-oo-" as in "foot") but most people give it one ("Woo-ster"). But then I'm a transplanted New Yorker - from the Bronx, at that - so what do I know.


#105581 06/20/03 03:01 PM
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Well, Doc, at least you learned to pronounce Worcester kharekly!


#105582 06/21/03 12:42 AM
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...and don't forget that most prevalent orthographic lapse: to insert a gratuitous "h" and spell it "Worchester."




#105583 06/21/03 01:13 AM
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I can tell you that old-time Mass residents, speaking Boston, pronounce it with no R at all ("Woo -stah"; that's "-oo-" as in "foot")

Which is how we say it up here too, unless you go way up south, to the area around the Clinton-Gore highway.


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