I want to hear one of you Yanks mispronounce the word 'Worcestershire'

[Freebasser]

Record yourselves mispronouncing it and post it here, please and thankyou (y)

[Lyman Zerga]

sounds like a job for my asshole

[Helvete]

Here is a tip, Americanos. It is said like "Wuss-ter-shear".

There, I spoiled all the fun.

[ericlee]

"worstershire shauce? Iiiii hate Worstershire schaaauuuccee!!"

[trailerprincess]

My friend worked a summer on a tour bus in Edinburgh (Edinboro) and one tourist asked her why they didn't build the castle closer to the train station. Gawd bless tourists.

[NoFenders]

Well why didn't they??? :cool:

[trailerprincess]

Well why didn't they??? :cool:

It was Thatcher's fault.

[JazzPolice]

My friend worked a summer on a tour bus in Edinburgh (Edinboro) and one tourist asked her why they didn't build the castle closer to the train station. Gawd bless tourists.
When I was visiting Italy a girl who was part of my group asked why they put all those benches in the Sistine Chapel.

[Knuckles]

"worstershire shauce? Iiiii hate Worstershire schaaauuuccee!!"

Is that a Scooby Doo reference?

[TurdBerglar]

there's a city between here and boston named worcester and it's pronounced as whister

[Bob]

there's a city between here and boston named worcester and it's pronounced as whister

i thought it was wooster

[marsdaddy]

I want to hear you Brits mispronounce the word 'Baltimore'.

[Bob]

I want to hear you Brits mispronounce the word 'Baltimore'.

"wooster", right?

[TurdBerglar]

have you ever been or worcester, bob? it's a fucking dump and a half and looks absolutely depressing just from the highway.

[beastiegirrl101]

hell, I can't even say rochester...

[JazzPolice]

hell, I can't even say rochester...
"shit·hole"

[beastiegirrl101]

Rodchester.

[Bob]

have you ever been or worcester, bob? it's a fucking dump and a half and looks absolutely depressing just from the highway.

like baltimore?

[Documad]

Ha! I know how to say that. But on my first trip to London, I asked a cab driver to take me to Cheyne Walk, and he laughed and laughed.

[taquitos]

wuss-tuh-shur

[HEIRESS]

"lee-and-per-rins"

[Yetra Flam]

wis-ter-shear

[Dorothy Wood]

worse t'sure

[ericlee]

Is that a Scooby Doo reference?

Looney Toons, Yosemite Sam. I think it was him.

[DandyFop]

Alright, alright. I gave it a shot (http://brabs.notlong.com)

[na§tee]

wooster-shy-err.

i said melbourne and brisbane AS THEY ARE SPELLED - melborn, brisbain, not like "melbin" or "brisbin" in funny australian clippled vowels that is the apparently correct way. motherfuckers. i also say geelong entirely wrong, but how often to do you get the chance to say geelong, eh?

launceston UK - lawn-stone
launceston tasmania - lon-ces-ton. or something else that contains three syllables, not two.

my mother is from rochester, england, and i say it rodge-est-err.

alnwick - anick.

keynsham where my mum lives now - kaneshum.

milngavie just outside glasgow is pronounced mill-guy. what the wtf?

now i really want some cheese on toast with worcestershire sauce, goddammit.

[Guy Incognito]

Pronounce "Chomondley".

Also an american friend of my dad's once pronounced "High Wycombe" as High wikombi.

[russhie]

wooster-shy-err.

i said melbourne and brisbane AS THEY ARE SPELLED - melborn, brisbain, not like "melbin" or "brisbin" in funny australian clippled vowels that is the apparently correct way. motherfuckers. i also say geelong entirely wrong, but how often to do you get the chance to say geelong, eh?

launceston UK - lawn-stone
launceston tasmania - lon-ces-ton. or something else that contains three syllables, not two.



What's a clippled vowel?

Geelong is easy. Just say "jelong".

[na§tee]

it's just shortened vowels. hrm, actually i don't know if that is the description i meant, looking back. people normally say that the NZ accent is mostly different from the australian accent by the use of clipped vowels, if that makes any sense. like south africans. it is really hard to type this, hahaha. /says 'black' in a south african accent ten times. blickblickblick..

i guess what i was referring to was the fact that if i see "geelong" i would say gee (as in whiz) long, not jelong. i would stick an extra e in there. as i would when it comes to melbourne/brisbane and accentuating the born/bane.

hrm, come to think of it that's not technically a clipped vowel at all i was trying to get at. think of how a south african would say "beautiful". now think of how an australian or an american would say beautiful "be-you-da-ful" - that's actually the opposite of a clipped vowel. infact i would say they are quite luxuriant in their vowels, haha. a drawl, even.

goodness, i am confusing myself.

you say tomato..

[mikizee]

Cracks me up when I hear americans pronounce emu 'emooo'. its pronounced 'eemyou'. Also when they say 'aussie' with a hard S. its pronounced 'ozzee'.

And thus concludes our intensive three week course.

[Helvete]

Alright, alright. I gave it a shot (http://brabs.notlong.com)

Woah, woah, I'm not falling for that one!

For some reason I adhere to the 'correct' pronunciation of Melbourne and Brisbane. I've heard it said too many times by whining Aussies to say it any other way.

[Bob]

you say tomato..

...i say timito?

[icy manipulator]

wooster-shy-err.

i said melbourne and brisbane AS THEY ARE SPELLED - melborn, brisbain, not like "melbin" or "brisbin" in funny australian clippled vowels that is the apparently correct way. motherfuckers. i also say geelong entirely wrong, but how often to do you get the chance to say geelong, eh?

launceston UK - lawn-stone
launceston tasmania - lon-ces-ton. or something else that contains three syllables, not two.

my mother is from rochester, england, and i say it rodge-est-err.

alnwick - anick.

keynsham where my mum lives now - kaneshum.

milngavie just outside glasgow is pronounced mill-guy. what the wtf?

now i really want some cheese on toast with worcestershire sauce, goddammit.
you really didn't know how to pronounce brisbane? pathetic! i know how to pronounce edinbrough. but that's because i used to live off edinbrough castle road :p

[mate_spawn_die]

Alright, alright. I gave it a shot (http://brabs.notlong.com)

me 2 (http://freshprincerolld.ytmnd.com/)

[Planetary]

i like hearing the yanks trying to say 'Leicester Square'

I was on the subway a few years ago and heard some little american girl asking her mum where ly-cest-er square was. made me laugh.

[mikizee]

I was on the train the other day and heard an american boy saying to his dad "we are both big fat stupid typical uncultured amercians.'

Made me laugh.

[Planetary]

good one

[b-grrrlie]

When I lived in London we had a summer house in Towcester (Toaster) and once I wanted to take a train to Lay-cester.