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Wuss-Tuh-Sher
What’d you call me?
…ain’t nothin to fuck with?
No thanks! I pronounce it exactly as it is spelled
Wooster shire
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.
Something like Woostuhshuh, apparently, for some reason. 🤨
Americans like over pronouncing shire for all English counties until they remember New Hampshire exists.
It’s not the shire that worries me, it’s where the fuck the rces in Worcester is going…
War. Chester. Fight me.
Don’t forget the shire.
Wash your sister.
That bitch can wash her self
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.
My buddy has been watching too many redneck cooking videos and calls it “warsh-yer-sister” sauce.
I genuinely don’t understand why that’s so hard for Americans so say.
It’s not hard at all. But due to the fact that stealing other people’s words and aggressively mispronouncing them seems to be the official British pastime, I don’t give a fuck how you pronounce it. I’ll pronounce it how it’s spelled, or any other way I damn well please.
There are more of us than there are of you. It’s our language now, you’re an anachronism.
What’s-this-here sauce
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?
I second this pronunciation.
Wait, Tolkien was English. He didn’t mean “Shire” to be pronounced like we Americans do it?
He did
As a standalone word it’s Shire as we say it, but put it at the end of a word and you pronounce it differently
Lancashire is lanka-sheer, for example
I hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.
Vor keester sheer
There’s a British surname, Featherstonhaugh. Many of the people with it pronounce it “Fanshaw.”
It’s pronounced “Worcestershire”.
Well the guy that invented it says it’s “Worcestershire” so…
Woo shir shir shir sauce
