pron of Worcester, MA

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:33 PM +0000 2/27/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>Reminds me of the Clinton years when for
>"social" he would say, ~soesool (~oe as in "toe"
>~ool as in "wool") instead of ~soeshool.
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Usually in the context of "Social Security",
where there's an [S] being pressured by two [s]'s
in each direction.  Assimilation, I always
thought.

LH



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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
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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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>>>  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.
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>>>  James Harbeck.
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