shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1948arrow-down118
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minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI do Woor-cest-er-sure. Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred “war-chest” sound. But the “C” seems unused by most.
minus-squareXIIIesq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-29 hours agoI dk where you Americans are getting the “sure” part from, it’s much more like “she-er” or if your more northern it’d be a bit more like “sher”.
I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
I second this pronunciation.
I do Woor-cest-er-sure.
Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred “war-chest” sound. But the “C” seems unused by most.
I dk where you Americans are getting the “sure” part from, it’s much more like “she-er” or if your more northern it’d be a bit more like “sher”.