[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Puddings

[Janette]

On 10/2/07, Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> montims:
>
> > On another tack, I am delighted to find Worcestershire sauce in the
> shops
> > here, and also in some steak restaurants, and I love asking for it, as
> the
> > server always needs to clarify - "Woo -ss - ss - ss - sh - ss?"  In
> England,
> > it's pronounced Wooster, pure and simple...
>
> Geoff:
> Not quite correct. It doesn't rhyme with 'rooster'. It's more 'wuss-ter'
> rhyming
> perhaps with 'fluster' and 'muster'. Another fun one for the North
> Americans
> is Leicester (or Leicestershire) pronounced 'less-ter'.


motims:
no, no, no...  the first syllable rhymes with book (or Bush), surely?


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