Puddings

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> On 10/2/07, Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
> 
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr@> 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?

Geoff:
The normal UK pronunciation of 'wooster' would not rhyme with 'book' 
but would sound like 'woo' as in 'to court', probably because of Bertie 
Wooster in the P.G.Wodehouse Jeeves books.

My firs syllable of Worcester WOULD rhyme with book or bush.