Puddings

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Elizabeth Snape" 
<snapes_witch at ...> wrote:
>
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Snape's Witch
 
Geoff:
Just for the record, Worcester(shire) is the same as 
Leicester(shire) and Gloucester(shire) in the spelling 
of the "cester" bit.