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  • Tuss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I pronounce it wor-chst-sher sauce. As does my friends who aren’t from London but from other parts of the UK

    My London boi says Woust-er sauce.

    How do you get Wor-chest-er-sher to become Woust-er? How?

    I understand Wor-chst-sher you just remove some vowels in the middle.

    But Wouster? You just removed the whole fucking word?? Why???

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      1 year ago

      Idk about woust-er sauce, pretty sure that’s just dropping a syllable.

      But the rest of it is because the syllables are supposed to be worce-ster-shire.

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      Brits do stuff like that. For example, the city Gloucester is pronounced “Gloss-ter”