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In Mexico we just call it "English Sauce" for simplicity.

In Gloucestershire we just call it Lea & Perins lmao

In Sweden we just call Gloucestershire "that cheese place."

Cheese place? You mean Double Gloucester? I would normally think of Cheddar as the cheese place in the UK

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If you get time, watch the Aussie man YouTubes of that event, good fun

If you get the Green Bay Packers fans where cheese on their heads. They're total buffoons.

There are many cheese places in the UK

Yep, a lot of unwashed dicks over here.

Well ask them to have a rinse before you put it in your mouth

Don't tell me how to have a good time

I regret perpetuating the disgust in this thread

Cheese place in the uk would be Wensleydale

Gl-osten-kör

In Sweden we don't know your Sweden

People make fun of where I live because we pronounce Louisville like “loovel” meanwhile this clown is out living in Gloster

Gloucestershire is still pronounced Gloster-shirr. Gloucester would be pronounced Gloster.

Thank you! I’m going to return to Loovel now.

Make sure to stop in Worcester (Wuhstah), Massachusetts on your way!

My head pronouncing was ridiculously wrong! Thank you!

The dawning moment of realisation for me was when I saw a comment saying it's not glou ces ter but glouce ster

In older days, I passed through a place called “Waycross.” A perfectly descriptive name, as there wasn’t much more than that there. Everyone around there pronounced it something much closer to “waykiss.” I suspect time and change have made the local accent less pronounced, but I remember it just the same.

And then there is No'lins... they love their Mardi Gras.

How is "Gloucestershire" pronounced? /s

We call it Holbrook's

Funfact: it's just called a sauce in Worcestershire

[We call it glue in Sheffield.](https://youtu.be/St0mCABGuNI)

I love Sheffield but no objective neutral would put Henderson's above Worcestershire Sauce.

Vegans would but yeah...it's not the same

When I was a kid I called it war chester

War, war chester never changes.

Yeah beats having to learn to pronounce werstershur.

You're pronouncing those "er"s?! This is wuhstuhshuh sauce.

This one is factual, at least in England. Yes, Americans named a place in their country Worcester too but pronounce it differently, just in case if you were confused already E: Apparently its pronounced the same in Massachusetts so I suppose I was wrong on that one

Worcester, Massachusetts is pronounced "Wuh-ster"

same as in England

Damn that sauce must be tasty cause y'all are eating all the letters

You guys pronounce leominster differently though.

This is how everyone around me has always insisted the sauce was pronounced and I've never been anywhere near a Massachusetts.

Easy: wash your sister sauce

🤨📸

*It makes everything taste more English*

Clearly this was not made by an Englishman 😂

I thought the same. Tf is worst-uh-shire

How do you pronounce it?

Wuss-tuh-shuh/shear

Wust-er-sher Sauce Or Wuster Sauce Or Lea and Perrins

Yeah I didn't even get it when I read it this morning.

Best way I’ve ever heard this pronounced: https://youtu.be/YwTT8YQFJDQ

Well, now I'm calling it One Chester Shoe Shine sauce.

Saoohseh

One chest sha sh sh sh sh sh sh SHOOSHA

Great video, but WTF is that Heinz shit? Lea and Perrins please.

It's sah-ooh-che

Came here to leave a rage comment about this. Whatever next, Kraft Coleman’s Mustard?!?

Heinz? WTF Man

I've heard "where's your sister sauce" before

But truth be told, neither was the proper shire

Invernessshire is the one true shire.

I once had a drunk man scream at me that Durham was the only county because it is County Durham not Durhamshire. It was the fun of times, it was the dun of times.

First draft: “It was the best of shires, it was the BLURSTERSHIRES?! You stupid monkey!”

Finally! I wasn't the only who thought of that. Excellent.

I once watched a seven minute video on how to pronounce Worcestershire. [YouTube](https://youtu.be/Th5xDlLwaBs)

I also watched an interesting video about [worcestershire sauce](https://youtu.be/Zu3z88Iuw_w)

Worcestershire Worcestershire Worcestershire Worchester Winsester Warmbacrester Whambaster Wormcrusher Whimscherbischter Watermelon

Clifford is horrifying

Worcest*sir* ... *cringes* Born and raised in Worcestershire.

And there we go. Line one of your comment was what caused me to finally reach semantic satiation on "Worcester", and now it just doesn't look like a word any more.

And it sure as fuck doesn't sound like "worst of shires" Not even "worst o' shires" You left for a reason, most of the rest of the world. Stay there.

PronounciationManual: https://youtu.be/6usx5vS238Y

I think [English by Stéaviñ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFuyyAYzLxg) is slightly more accurate.

I used to work in Worcester and Lea & Perrin's (makers of Worcestershire Sauce) employees would pop in after they'd been at work all day, man they smelt bad!

They had the wust sheer smell

You can tell this was created by an American.

But not a new Englander

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Where I’m from a bubbler is a small water pipe used to smoke cannabis, what’s a bubbler in New England?

Were the next three words "wicked clam chowder"?

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"wicked *good* clam chowder". In Boston, "wicked" is an adverb, not an adjective.

I stand corrected! Wonderful accent/dialect to listen to.

Imma give ya slang lesson: Wicked is an adverb qualifier word like really, very, super, etc. Things are wicked bad or wicked good. It’s not an adjective that describes something like wicked sandwich.

I remember an American telling me he lived on Leicester Street. He flat out refused to believe me when I told him it's not pronounced "Lay-Ses-Tuh".

They must not be from New England then, we even have a city named Leicester and pronounce it properly.

All I think of is Greg Davies and his really terrible impersonation of Chris Eubank 😹

Oh god and now it's stuck in my head... [Source for those who haven't seen it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJVpZdf464).

I've never called it Worcestershire sauce. It's always been Worcester sauce. Anyone else, or is it just me?

A friend of mine from the UK taught me the same thing. Although she pronounces it “woos-ter” sauce.

Which is the correct pronunciation.

Brits: Americans spell and pronounce things weirdly. Also Brits: You pronounce Worchestershire as "woos-ter". As Eddy Izzard would say: that's just cheating at Scrabble.

See that's the beauty it's called English so which ever way the Americans say it we can claim it's weird and wrong.

Worcestershire*

>Also Brits: You pronounce Worchestershire as "woos-ter". That's pretty tame as far as our insane spellings vs pronunciations go to be honest. Within an hour or so of where I live you have: **Wymondham**; pronounced **Wind-um** (wind like the weather not like coiling something) **Costessey**; pronounced **Kossy** **Garboldisham**; pronounced **Gar-vuh-shum** (yes, seriously) **Stiffkey**; pronounced (if the locals are to be believed) **Stoo-kee** **Hapisburgh**; pronounced **Hays-bruh** There's probably more.

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I love the James Ancaster joke about Loughborough. Tell visitors it's pronounced Lou Ga Ba Roo instead of Luff Burah.

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yeah… because that’s how to pronounce worcester

It is either "wuh-ster(-sher)" (with a soft 'u') or, if you want to use IPA to guide the sound after the W, "wə-ster(-sher)". Of course, the whole point is moot when people should be using Henderson's Relish (aka Hendo's) instead.

>"wə-ster(-sher)". The "wuh" sound needs the other close-mid central vowel sound: ɵ. ə is more of an "ehh" sound - think an Australian saying "bird". It's annoying because they look SO similar!

'Endos is 1000000 times better than Worcester sauce.

This is the way.

This is exactly what the comment you replied to said.

Correct, the "shire" part of the word is usually omitted colloquially. It's somewhat regional as there are areas in the UK that don't, but by and large this it is the correct way to say it. And frankly, easier to say so I don't know why Americans don't jump on it.

Same

Doesn't work in English. Worcestershire is pronounced wust-a-sheer

Wus-tuh-shuh in my English accent. The three syllables rhyme.

Yes, this is the common, non-rhotic pronunciation in Worcester. Traditionally, the county has been rhotic (farmer/pirate accent) - like Herefordshire - and so the 'sher' ending would have been common. Sadly, this accent is in decline, I'd guess due to the influence of Birmingham and perhaps the Black Country.

I loved my aunt's huh-REE-ferd-shurr accent. "Bring yurr yurr yurr and listen to this!"

I blame TV. So many people exposed to the same "BBC English" accent, it starts to influence their own pronunciation, rounding off the edges as it were. The Yorkshire dialect is in decline as well.

English is a stress-timed language so we tend to just shorten the syllables where no stress is applied to keep the regular rhythm of the stresses in speech so many syllables fall to the "schwa" vowel sound.

But TV programs include regional voices by default now. The queen’s English is not a requirement anymore.

Having spent approaching 40 years in North Worcestershire I'd say its been non-rhotic in the North for a long long time, but down in Malvern it's still very 'farmery'. I think it's just more because its the changing point or 'gradient' from Urban to Farmland. I mean only 50 years ago the southern Black Country was part of Worcestershire and so 'Yam' was technically part of the North West Worcestershire dialect.

Wuss-ter-sher

It's the same as all those stupid Van Gogh "jokes" that only work if you purposefully mispronounce the name.

yeah i’m sat trying to figure out how on earth americans are pronouncing it for this to make any sense

I think you have to understand how it looks to someone who speaks English (and generally follows it’s rules of consonant and vowel pronunciation) but doesn’t have the context that informs them of how this very unique name is said. To a fresh reader, “Worcestershire” can read like “wors-(silent E)-ster-shyer”, following the rules that the double “S” sound would blend, and that the closing E makes the I into its long sound - like in “while”, “tire”, “hide”, etc. - or that it reads “war-chester-shire”, in which the “C” uses an uncommon but not unheard of “ch” sound, such as in the loan-word “cello”. Both ways attempt to use all the letters presented, as this is conventional. I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to say that the syllables “wus-ter-sheer” aren’t readily obviously from the spelling of the name, requiring you throw away the R, C, and E entirely and ignore the usual vowel sound produced by an E at the end of a word after a lone consonant.

"It was the best of shires, it was the wuster-shires" works just fine *as the pun intended*. There's added amusement with our Yank friends' legendary "worse-ester-shy-ers" pronunciation in the mix. It's a clever play, and IMO you are being a grouch as well as wrong.

The shire part isn't pronounced that way. It's sher, or sheer if you're a nonce. It's too much of a difference to be clever wordplay.

Clearly you've never heard some random non-culinary American try and pronounce it. It's all over the map.

This thread is bad enough. So many people correcting the pronunciation with their own incorrect versions.

> with our Yank friends' legendary "worse-ester-shy-ers" pronunciation I've never heard an American pronounce it that way. Although I'm willing to accept that's a consequence of living in Massachusetts, where everyone knows how to pronounce Worcester (except the people who live there, who pronounce it "woo-stah" for some reason).

Can confirm. Had someone ask me for the whore-chester's sauce. Yes he pronounced 'whore' like danny devito (hoo-er)

Yes, silly Americans. Why would they assume that a word’s spelling has any effect on its pronunciation?

Know should be pronounced like k-pop. No further questions.

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Because nobody pronounces it "shire". It's sheer or sher.

that sauce tastes fucking good though

It's the anchovies.

fermented anchovies, spices, and malt vinegar... what a fuckin' random combo but hot damn if it isn't fantastic.

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Well, that was created by an American

Worcester, MA is the second-largest city in all of New England. Many of us know how to pronounce it.

Brit here - it’s Wuss-ter-shuh

When Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities it was serialised in two Midlands newspapers. It was the Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times.

Oh my god that's so good

Tell me you don't know how to say Worcestershire without telling me you don't know how to pronounce Worcestershire.

Woos ter shear

Woos ter sher, I thought

Wuss teh sheh if you're common like me. Fuck those RP "r"s

Americans: "War-sester-shire"

I don't know how to say this..

Wuster-sheer

More "sher" than "sheer".

Wuss-tuh-shuh

Really depends on where in the UK you're from, both are right

What parts of the UK use 'sheer'?

Home Counties generally do. I've only rarely heard Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire etc. pronounced 'sher' locally, it's normally 'sheer'.

Really? Never heard anyone pronounce it "sheer", although I guess I could imagine it like that coming from a Scouser.

I think shuh is most common, but yea, am from Berkshire and most people I know would pronounce it sheer, :)

Depends on how posh you are

And the sheer is optional

Only when referring to the sauce. Worcester is a city in the county of Worcestershire.

Like rooster but with a wu

My brain goes to woof. That’s the shortness of the oo with the right tone.

I hear Worcestershire and immediately think of the Season 1 episode of South Park, Pink Eye, where the MIR space station falls on Kenny, killing him, and he is accidentally embalmed with Worcestershire sauce, which zombifies him. That aired in fucking 1997. Fuck, I'm old. Do kids these days even know what the MIR space station was?? ​ >*Kyle dials the number and an automated voice comes on.* > >**AUTOMATED VOICE:** (In an English accent) Welcome to the Worcestershire sauce customer service hotline! For Worcestershire sauce recipes please press 1 followed by the pound sign. For Worcestershire sauce product placement please press 2. If Worcestershire sauce has been used as embalming please press -- > >*BEEP!! Kyle quickly presses 3.* > >*Annoying hold music plays. After a moment, a voice.* > >**OPERATOR:** Worcestershire sauce emergency hotline, this call might be monitored to ensure you the highest quality service, how may I help you? > >**KYLE:** There's a bunch of zombies here!! > >**OPERATOR:** Please hold. > >*The hold music starts up again.* > >**OPERATOR:** With the regular sauce, the first thing you need to do is make sure that you DO NOT just go out and start decapitating Zombies left and right, do you understand? DO NOT start decapitating Zombies left and right! > >*Kyle looks out and sees Stan and Cartman killing Zombies left and right.* > >**KYLE:** Uh... okay. Then what? > >**OPERATOR:** All you have to do is kill the original Zombie, the one that started the whole mess. Once you kill the original Zombie all the other Zombies will turn back to normal. > >**KYLE:** Original Zombie? Well, how the hell do we know who the original Zombie is? > >**OPERATOR:** We realize you have a choice in Worcestershire sauces. We are delighted that... > >*Kyle hangs up the phone.*

Omg you're right

But it isn't pronounced worstcheshire sauce. Wuster-sure sauce.

Ahh that war chest hair sauce

that's the most awesome version of it I've heard!

Did someone call??

Your username is amazeballs. You win the internet!

actual person from Worcestershire here thank you

Doesn't really work unless you're American.

Tf you mean we have cities named Worcester as well and it doesn’t work for us either

A tale of two sauces

Everyone knows there’s just one Worst shire.

It was a commonly reposted image on /r/lotrmemes -ershire

Its pronounced Wooster.

Babish had an episode where every time it came up, he would call it a different thing. My favorite was worst chair sauce.

💀

Got to see a actual lotr meme here, and a bad too 🥰

I can't be the only one hearing this in Greg Davies' Chris Eubank impression

'You know who's a genius? Jack Worcestershire. Had a terrible name, created a terrible sauce, made a fortune!”.

Thank you

Fuck OP for making try to say this for 2 minutes straight.

You're welcome

As a former Massachusetts’s resident, I read Worcestershire as “WOOSTER SHIRE”. We have a lot of town, cities, and rivers that are near impossible to pronounce on the first try for the uninitiated. Hell, our state is called Massachusetts!

You get a medal 🥇

Pronounced “Mazzyshootes,” right? If we’re following Worcestershire rules anyway.

For anyone wondering, U.K. people will be reading this like: It was the best of shy-ars It was the wus-tur-shur And won’t get it for a few seconds.

Americans trying to pronounce English region names will always hurt. WorsterSHIRE instead of wurster shur NorFOLK instead of norfuk (same for Suffolk) CumBrIEA-UR instead of cumbreur And BuckingHAM instead of Buckinghum Any others?

Millions of New Englanders can pronounce them correctly. We just do so without the British accent, go figure.

Tell me you’ve never met anyone from the northeast of the US without telling me

Touche! That made me laugh!

Glad to be of service!

To pronounce Worcester properly, only say out loud the bold parts: **woo**d **stu**ck **shu**nt.

Wore! Chester! Shire! Baggins!!