pron of Worcester, MA

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Alison Murie <sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:
>
> 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."

Didn't Daffy Duck pronounce it as "Woosterchestershire sauce"? (Or
"Woothterchethtershire thauth"?)


--Ben Zimmer

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