Back to this.. now that Iβve been reminded (thanks @Mauve_matelot )
Another friend says βwash your sister. β π
@Museek @Mauve_matelot
It's so easy it's ridiculous π€£
Wuss
Ter
Sheer
@wolfwoman @stueytheround @Museek @Mauve_matelot There's a Wooster, Ohio. It's not pronounced Worcester.
@poemblaze @stueytheround @Museek @Mauve_matelot
Bravo for those folx!
@wolfwoman Worcestershire sauce is from the English county of the same name, so we get the casting vote on this one π€£π€£
Truth is it doesn't matter.
Wuss/Woos
ter/tuh
shur/sheer
whatever works as long as you can say it without tying your tongue in a knot!
@stueytheround @Museek @Mauve_matelot
I bow to your obvious claim to the correct pronunciation, m'lord!
@wolfwoman @stueytheround @Museek @Mauve_matelot
Welcome to Massachusetts. π
@grayman @wolfwoman @Museek
I need to be careful.
I got blocked here once by an American who insisted I was pronouncing it wrong π€£π€£π€£
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @Museek
I have had to coach someone on the proper pronunciation for the town of Peabody.
@grayman @stueytheround @wolfwoman @Museek
Pee-ah-Buddy, easy
@grayman @stueytheround @Museek
There aren't so many in MD that I'm aware of. But I *do* know that most folx pronounce Norfolk wrong.
https://youtu.be/4uzcM8jrWQk
@wolfwoman @grayman @Museek
There are so many traps in the UK
For instance in Scotland there's a small fishing town
Kirkudbright
or on the border you can visit Hawick. You're already pronouncing them wrong π€£π€£
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman @Museek Kirkbrt and Heyck?
@stueytheround @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
I was close on the 2nd... didn't get the "oy" sound.
@wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
The one which gets me every time is Beaulieu (famous for the motor museum) which is pronounced Byew Lee! π€£π€£
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek Hey I've been there! It's cool!
@JolieSaboteuse Oh yeah! It's superb. Almost all the cars there are roadgoing too. Very few are "ornaments". btw did you make it to the Coventry one in the end?
@stueytheround @JolieSaboteuse @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
Oh my.... I really want to go there! I love cars!
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek We were like "how do you say that? is it like billly oh?"
No it's BEW-LEE
"How the fuck does that work?"
Same way as Leicester is LESS-TAH
"ohhhhhh ok. New rules eh."
@stueytheround @JolieSaboteuse @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
So Stuey, what about Welsh? Do you speak it? I actually want them to leave out almost all the consonants - it would work better!
@wolfwoman Oh gosh no! I can make a reasonable stab at place names but that's about it. @JolieSaboteuse @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
@JolieSaboteuse @stueytheround @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
French but not, got it. LOL
@stueytheround @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
But, but ... it's French?
Oy! We had a lot of funny ones in CA because Spanish and also Indigenous ... WA has a couple of good ones, too.
@wolfwoman I know right! π€£ @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman i would say beau lee ew
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman i mean bow lee ew
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman @Museek
Talliaferro county: Pronounced "Tolliver County"
@stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman @Museek I think it's pronounced "stience". ; )
@stueytheround @grayman @Museek
I can make a guess at the second one because my husband (Yorkshireman, he proudly declared constantly) taught me how to say Smithwick.
:D
@stueytheround π the Scots pronounce everything weird lol @wolfwoman @grayman
@Museek As you know all too well, given one of your best friends is Scottish π€£ @wolfwoman @grayman
@Museek @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman
Two different Glaswegians assaulted my ear one day and i still have absolutely no clue what they were saying. i felt more comfortable walking the streets of Yakutsk, language wise.
@northernbassist π i had to look up Yakutsk π i believe it... but there is something pretty magical about hearing it...
and Rhyming Cockney.. lol very entertaining..
sorry..take a left at Albuquerque, straight on to Pyongyang, then go NNE a thousand klicks..π
@Museek @northernbassist @stueytheround @grayman
It is a lovely sounding language! I just watched a youtube video because I didn't know what it was, either. ;)
@Museek tread carefully now @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman
@ecksmc I was hoping you'd jump in π€£
@Museek @wolfwoman @grayman
@stueytheround @Museek @wolfwoman @grayman just observing...... For now "gie it laldy" is on hold
@ecksmc π π i still love the Scots
@grayman @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman ol i remember the best "anti-terror" method at the airport.. listening..
@grayman Mag fuckin nificent π€£ @Museek @ecksmc @wolfwoman
@grayman @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman hahaha Wha' feck YOU on aboot?
@grayman @Museek @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman
You have no idea how much I want to visit Scotland .. and stay, explore for a long period of time, see the sites.
@thereg001 Take a year or two. @grayman @Museek @ecksmc @wolfwoman
@stueytheround @thereg001 @grayman @Museek @ecksmc
So true. I only got to spend a couple of days in Scotland (also Ireland) and I would love to go back and spend much, much longer in both.
@Museek @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman
Everybody loves the Scots ππ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ€£
@wolfwoman Trap pronunciation is totally a thing.
I live near a trap pronunciation city.
@EnochianEntropy @grayman @stueytheround @Museek
Please say more? I'm not familiar with that term.
@wolfwoman A city with a specific pronunciation designed to read a certain way, but is actually pronounced another way to show who is not from there.
"I love <WrongPronunciation>!
It's a lovely town!"
"You ain't from around here, boy."
@EnochianEntropy @grayman @stueytheround @Museek
Thanks, I guessed what it meant but couldn't find it as a definition.
@wolfwoman I don't know if it's an actual thing, other than it being an actual thing I know of because of <Town>.
@stueytheround @Museek @Mauve_matelot
And yet ... my mom worked for a doctor who was from Worcester, Mass. He insisted it is pronounced, "Wooster". So there's that ...