pron of Worcester, MA

[Tom Zurinskas]

Reminds me of the Clinton years when for "social" he would say, ~soesool (~oe as in "toe" ~ool as in "wool") instead of ~soeshool.



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:36:25 -0500
> From: sagehen7470 at ATT.NET
> Subject: Re: pron of Worcester, MA
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Alison Murie
> Subject: Re: pron of Worcester, MA
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> Pronouncing /c/ as "ch" doesn't necessarily imply the mistaken
> insertion of an /h/, since we have a number of words borrowed from
> Italian that exhibit this feature, as does church Latin (influenced, I
> suppose, by Italian). BTW, I've known a number of people who give
> "Worcestershire" a full-blown five-syllable pronunciation:
> "Worchestershyer Sauce."
> AM
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> On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:43 PM, James Harbeck wrote:
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>> Poster: James Harbeck
>> Subject: Re: pron of Worcester, MA
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>> As a slight digression, the thing I always found most interesting
>> about Worcester when I lived in Boston was not its pronunciation --
>> which I was used to from Worcestershire sauce -- but the fact that it
>> was common for people to explain, "It's spelled Worchester but
>> pronounced Wista." Not "Wor-cest-er" but "Wor-chest-er." Quite a lot
>> of people seemed to have the definite idea that there was an h after
>> the c. Similar, I imagine, to the common idea in Toronto that there's
>> a g after then n in Eglinton.
>>
>> James Harbeck.
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