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[Elizabeth Snape]

> 
> 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.
> 

It's really 'Woo-ster'(as in 'to court' with the accent on the first 
syllable) in the UK?  I'm surprised because that's the way we pronounce 
it here in Indiana -- there's a village named Wooster, not much more 
that a crossroads with several houses, near the town where I went to 
school and I always thought we were a bunch of hicks to pronounce it 
that way because in New England they pronounce it 'Woos-ter' (same as 
in Worchestershire).

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