Wuster-shurr
At a funeral
‘Can I say a word?’
‘Go ahead’
‘Plethora’
‘Thanks, that means a lot.’
Bruh, too soon…
wustashuh
Isn’t that a city in Massachusetts?
Nah that’s just wustuh
close you got the Wusta. more like Wustahear.
That just depends on where in the uk the accent is from
perhapss, but this is my pronunciation and lets agree that accents in the uk are really only 50 miles away or less from eachother. Embrace our culture and my special sauce.
tamarind, is the thing that makes it.
forgot the s
wustashear
Werst-eh-sher
One of my favourites names like this is Bicester.
Or Towcester
Bideford is another I like.
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War Chest Sir
or Wash Your Sister
War-Chester-shire
This is how I would pronounce it so it’s definitely wrong.
If the Brits wanted it pronounced their way then they should’ve stopped adding so many fucking letters
Nope… Woostershu sauce.
Just stop adding extra sylables
wuss tear shear
Stick it on cheese toastie right off to stab sum manz innit
Fuckin English words and just rejecting half the god damn letters in it. You complain about French, but look at you! You’ve done the same thing!
Believe it or not the French are also to blame for this
We already dropped plenty of letters from it; it used to be Weogorancaesterscir (probably “the country of the stronghold of the people of the bending river”).
What the heck accent is that meant to be when it’s at home?
Wuss that over tear?
If you didn’t want the syllables, why have the letters for them?
It’s not our fault we had to mash Franco Germanic Latin and Nordic words together
Wor. Ces. Ter. Shire.
(wor-SES-ter-shire)
Not that fucking difficult.
The Brits get to pronounce it (WUH-ster) because they invented it.
Shire is a pretty commonly mispronounced word in itself lol
Shy-er vs shure
I pronounce it shy er
Now go talk to somebody from “wistah” mass
The Brits get to pronounce it (WUH-ster) because they invented it.
That’s kind of not how language works though, is it?
Zat’nik’tel
Bless you, very impressive sneeze
gerwundersniffel (that’s gesundheit in german)
Genau… hoffe es geht dir bald besser
gvd ik ken al geen Duits en dat was de meest verwarrende zin ooit om te lezen.
Graag gedaan!
I say it the way it’s spelled. Other, perhaps more common pronunciations came about out of laziness. People just slurring the syllables together and now they’ve all agreed that’s how it’s pronounced because that’s how “everyone pronounces it”.
If that’s true for this and so many other words, then why don’t we just change the spelling to match the pronunciation we’ve “all agreed on?”
Right now, a problem schools are having is they’re trying to teach kids how to read without teaching letter sounds. Why? I have no fucking idea, it’s stupid.
My kid read above his grade level throughout school and at a college level in high school, because WE taught him. If we had relied on the schools alone, he would have floundered.
A critical look at “SoR”, or the Science of Reading movement that has left so many kids unable to read at grade level, sometimes falling four or five grades behind:
https://righttoreadproject.com/2024/07/06/hoping-for-the-best-is-not-a-viable-strategy/
Were Chester Shire, or, Worster Shire. Either/or.
“Wooster sauce” - it rhymes with “Rooster sauce”
No it doesn’t.
That’s the one. Everyone knows what you mean when you say it, so why make it longer.
I thought it rhymed with “wusta”. (But keep in mind I’m originally from Massachusetts.)
and busta, cause he rhymes
But rooster sauce is the fake-not-Asian-at-all-no-matter-how-hard-it-tries-to-pretend chili garlic sauce from Southern California.
