[Ads-l] Dorchester

[Amy West]

On 4/22/16 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:36:38 +0000
> From:    edward callary<callary1 at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Dorchester
>
> As I remember - albeit from 40 years ago - the Maryland pronunciation of Worcester was woo ster (occasionally wUster (as in could)) or wore ster if you insisted on/r/. But I learned English (or a version thereof) in baw mer, mer lin, watching the coats on Sunday afternoons.
>
> Ed
Your info is more legit than mine: I was just told this by Pasadena (MD) 
residents who said that's how they heard it pronounced on the TV news. I 
haven't actually heard it down in MD yet. So, I thank you for the 
correction.

---Amy West



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