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SquirtleSkwad
02/14/21 12:57:57 PM
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And Bostonians really pronounce "Worcestershire" as "wusta".

What the fuck.

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PoundGarden
02/14/21 1:03:41 PM
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The real reason we renounced the crown and went to war in the 1776

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Tom Clark
02/14/21 1:13:17 PM
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There was a village near where I grew up called Happisburgh. It's pronounced Hays-bruh.

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SquirtleSkwad
02/14/21 1:13:46 PM
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Tom Clark posted...
There was a village near where I grew up called Happisburgh. It's pronounced Hays-bruh.
God fucking dammit.

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Antifar
02/14/21 1:14:20 PM
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SquirtleSkwad posted...
And Bostonians really pronounce "Worcestershire" as "wusta".
No, the city in MA is just Worcester

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Tom Clark
02/14/21 1:15:53 PM
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SquirtleSkwad posted...
And Bostonians really pronounce "Worcestershire" as "wusta".


This would be (just about) correct. Worcester is pronounced Wuh-stuh, so Worcestershire is pronounced "Wuh-stuh-shuh"

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SquirtleSkwad
02/14/21 1:16:38 PM
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Antifar posted...
No, the city in MA is just Worcester
Thank you.

Still goddamn ridiculous.

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Stagmar
02/15/21 10:20:51 PM
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But how do you pronounce Frome?

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TomNook20
02/15/21 10:22:54 PM
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2Pacavelli
02/15/21 10:26:20 PM
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War chester sauce
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brestugo
02/15/21 10:50:11 PM
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Wait until you hear how they pronounce:

garage
fillet
aluminum
vitamin

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Bio1590
02/15/21 11:00:31 PM
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brestugo posted...
Wait until you hear how they pronounce:

garage
fillet
aluminum
vitamin

Aluminium is actually the correct international standard fwiw
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RedJackson
02/15/21 11:04:06 PM
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brestugo posted...
Wait until you hear how they pronounce:

gah-roj
fill it
alum-nums
vetemen


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brestugo
02/15/21 11:09:41 PM
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When I was in the UK, I heard garage pronounced
"gehr-rej".

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RedJackson
02/15/21 11:20:08 PM
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brestugo posted...
When I was in the UK, I heard garage pronounced
"gehr-rej".

ooooh way that's better haha

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Tom Clark
02/16/21 3:06:25 AM
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I'd say garage is more Ga-ridge if you're typing it out.

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Thompson
02/16/21 3:12:52 AM
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Leisure rhymes with pleasure
To-ma-to

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Caroniver
02/16/21 3:23:01 AM
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I wanted to be all high and mighty and grab the official pronunciation transcription and call you all clowns for trying to type it out in your own weird ways, but then I found out it should look like "gr-d".
So I'll just say it's pronounced like "garish", but with a j.

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Kaiganeer
02/16/21 3:24:31 AM
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d'you go' a loicense fo' 'at cat m8
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Bio1590
02/16/21 3:27:59 AM
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Thompson posted...
Leisure rhymes with pleasure

That's how I pronounce it!
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Funkydog
02/16/21 3:51:10 AM
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Stagmar posted...
But how do you pronounce Frome?
Growing up in Frome most Brits dont even known how to pronounce it, let alone spell it if you say it to them.

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SquirtleSkwad
02/16/21 4:51:43 PM
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Bio1590 posted...
Aluminium is actually the correct international standard fwiw
FWIW?

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brestugo
02/16/21 4:53:46 PM
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The way they pronounce "banana" is interesting too.

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SPE
02/16/21 4:54:29 PM
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SquirtleSkwad posted...
And Bostonians really pronounce "Worcestershire" as "wusta".

What the fuck.

worcestershire always confuses me. I see some people call it worceshire

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A5modeu5
02/16/21 4:54:46 PM
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SquirtleSkwad posted...
Bio1590 posted...
Aluminium is actually the correct international standard fwiw
FWIW?


For what it's worth
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Hexenherz
02/16/21 4:55:03 PM
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forecastle is foke-sull >_>

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Tom Clark
02/16/21 5:01:48 PM
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SPE posted...
worcestershire always confuses me. I see some people call it worceshire

Wuh-stuh-shuh

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JlM
02/16/21 5:05:17 PM
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The first time I heard someone pronounce Edinburgh my brain melted.
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brestugo
02/16/21 6:52:48 PM
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SPE posted...
worcestershire always confuses me. I see some people call it worceshire
When I went to New Orleans, they said "Wuhstah Sauce"

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brestugo
02/16/21 6:54:37 PM
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Caroniver posted...
I wanted to be all high and mighty and grab the official pronunciation transcription and call you all clowns for trying to type it out in your own weird ways, but then I found out it should look like "gr-d".
So I'll just say it's pronounced like "garish", but with a j.
That's how it sounded to me.

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