At a funeral

'Can I say a word?'

'Go ahead'

'Plethora'

'Thanks, that means a lot.'

wustashuh

Zat'nik'tel

It's pronounced "wash your sister"

Wuster-shurr

Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout, printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotile asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.

Just stop adding extra sylables

wuss tear shear

Stick it on cheese toastie right off to stab sum manz innit

Werst-eh-sher

What if she's from Worcester and he's from Louisville?

Woostercheshterworstershire....

Garum.

How did he say it???

Web comic scholars argue to this day.

“Wooster sauce” - it rhymes with “Rooster sauce”

The worst "acceptable" pronunciation I've heard is - perhaps not coincidentally - "worster."

It’s were-stir-sure where I’m from. English language is nonsense. Which is why so many English speakers are absolute bonkers. How can anyone be sane when the language they think in is insane?

War-Chester-shire

Whor-Kester-shy-er

One of my favourites names like this is Bicester.

West Chester Sauce.

wuh-shuh-stuh-shire

At our house we just say un-pronouncable sauce, or Lea & Perrins.

War Chest Sir

or Wash Your Sister

I say it the way it's spelled. Other, perhaps more common pronunciations came about out of laziness. People just slurring the syllables together and now they've all agreed that's how it's pronounced because that's how "everyone pronounces it".

If that's true for this and so many other words, then why don't we just change the spelling to match the pronunciation we've "all agreed on?"

Right now, a problem schools are having is they're trying to teach kids how to read without teaching letter sounds. Why? I have no fucking idea, it's stupid.

My kid read above his grade level throughout school and at a college level in high school, because WE taught him. If we had relied on the schools alone, he would have floundered.

A critical look at "SoR", or the Science of Reading movement that has left so many kids unable to read at grade level, sometimes falling four or five grades behind:

https://righttoreadproject.com/2024/07/06/hoping-for-the-best-is-not-a-viable-strategy/

Wor. Ces. Ter. Shire.

(wor-SES-ter-shire)

Not that fucking difficult.

The Brits get to pronounce it (WUH-ster) because they invented it.

Were Chester Shire, or, Worster Shire. Either/or.

Y'all need to learn how to write out pronunciations, whether in the international phonetic alphabet or otherwise.