Yep, but they were spelling it phonetically and I just wanted to point out that their syllables are wrong. I think once you realize "worce" is one syllable, the pronunciation makes a lot more sense.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

I like your style.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

No thanks! I pronounce it exactly as it is spelled

thenextguy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Major Robert Thornbird: Our cameras saw some sort of weapon.

Jack O'Neill: Oh, well it's hard to say.

Major Robert Thornbird: Some sort of state secret?

Jack O'Neill: No. Just difficult to pronounce.

dragonfucker@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Zat'niketel?

illi@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Indeed.

Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

Tacluchnatagamuntoron

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Wooster Check Shire.

There, its wrong according to everyone.

itsnotits@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

it's* wrong

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Unintentional maximal wrongness unlocked!

Aksamit@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 1y (5 replies)

You wanna level up? Try Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

pyre@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

please wait while I grab this electric fence

AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Okay but...what?

Klear@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Entry level Polish name, simplified.

Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

Grzegorz.

don@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Brzhen chish chick evich.

Antagnostic@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Wash your sister.

RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That bitch can wash her self

AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 1y

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pyre@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

Worcestershire? I don't even know her

leftzero@lemmynsfw.com · 14 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Something like Woostuhshuh, apparently, for some reason. 🤨

SnowmenMelt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Americans like over pronouncing shire for all English counties until they remember New Hampshire exists.

leftzero@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It's not the shire that worries me, it's where the fuck the rces in Worcester is going...

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's worce-ster-shire. And the "worce" is pronounced "worse".

Klear@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

OK, but what if I pronounce it better?

bulwark@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

War. Chester. Fight me.

Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

Don't forget the shire.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y (11 replies)

I genuinely don't understand why that's so hard for Americans so say.

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 26 pts · 1y (2 replies)

In revenge we invented Arkansas.

odium@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y

and Illinois.

I've heard illi noise so many times I've given up on correcting it.

itsnotits@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I love how Americans pronounce "Arkansas River" depending on whether they're in Arkansas or Kansas.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 1y

It's not a common word for us and the phonetics don't match the pronunciation whatsoever.

FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQvjKqXA0Y

odium@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

if it's spelled worchestershire, I'm gonna pronounce it worchestershire.

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

I've been saying Worcestershire this whole time.

roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It's not hard at all. But due to the fact that stealing other people's words and aggressively mispronouncing them seems to be the official British pastime, I don't give a fuck how you pronounce it. I'll pronounce it how it's spelled, or any other way I damn well please.

There are more of us than there are of you. It's our language now, you're an anachronism.

Mr_Blott@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Gammonsayswhat?

MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

The language is called English, not Obesitese

Chainweasel@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Wooster-shire

MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Depends on how you pronounce shire. Americans tend to pronounce it like the hobbit place when it's more like "shuh".

klemptor@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I'm from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that's reasonably correct?

WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

I second this pronunciation.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I do Woor-cest-er-sure.

Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred "war-chest" sound. But the "C" seems unused by most.

13esq@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I dk where you Americans are getting the "sure" part from, it's much more like "she-er" or if your more northern it'd be a bit more like "sher".

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Wait, Tolkien was English. He didn't mean "Shire" to be pronounced like we Americans do it?

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

He did

As a standalone word it's Shire as we say it, but put it at the end of a word and you pronounce it differently

Lancashire is lanka-sheer, for example

chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I hear "Were-Chest-Sure" around here.

TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

My buddy has been watching too many redneck cooking videos and calls it "warsh-yer-sister" sauce.

itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y

What's-this-here sauce

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

I just saw a sign this morning that said "Irish Wristwatch - now you know you can't pronounce it". The sign was right.

secret300@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Does webtoon pay comic artists now? Or is that watermark there for no reason

Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

There's little visible name of the comic near it.

secret300@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ooohhhhh! I actually didn't see that. so they're on webtoons under that name?

Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah, I looked it up before commenting.

codapine@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's pronounced "Worcestershire".

nexguy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Well the guy that invented it says it's "Worcestershire" so....

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

There's a British surname, Featherstonhaugh. Many of the people with it pronounce it "Fanshaw."

ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y

wooster, as in Jeeves and.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

Vor keester sheer

don@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Woo-stah-sure.

13esq@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm from England and wouldn't pronounce it like this at all. The "woo" sounds like you're a ghost or something and the "sure" part is just outright wrong.

It's really hard express through text, but I'd say "wuss-ter-she-er" (the wuss part is pronounced the same way as if you're refering to a cowardly person), is much closer. Regional accents could make it different tho.

don@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

It gets ‘em in the right ballpark, at least, and away from confidently saying “Wore-sess-tur-shah-yer”, so I’m good with it.

lustyargonian@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Woo shir shir shir sauce

FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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Aksamit@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y

You mean non-brewed condiment?

eatthecake@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

We just call it wooster

tino@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Tabasco