City in MA. How do you pronouce Worcester?

[maveric]

Poll question: City in MA. How do you pronouce Worcester?

Growing up in MA I say choice #3.

[intheflow]

1. Wooster or Woostah

I'm from around Springfield, that's how I always heard it.

[WindRavenX]

2. Yuppers

You can always tell out of staters if they say "Wo-ches-ter"
:rofl:

[Sperk]

5. ya, take WOOD drop the D, add STAR minus the R-no R's allowed in New Eng.

:evilgrin:

[WindRavenX]

7. you know why, don't you?

R = R(epublican)

Just a theory :evilgrin:

[Hand]

18. Yuppers?

That's a weird way to pronounce Worcester.

[billyskank]

22. Maybe wierd, but not necessarily false.

Worcester in England is pronounced "wooster," and that is almost certainly where it is named after.

[Hand]

34. Well, that makes perfect sense...

...but I still can't see how anyone could pronounce it "Yuppers".

Okay, waiting for the penny to drop here... :evilgrin:

[billyskank]

43. Bollocks!

:banghead:

[crispini]

33. LOL.

You funny!

[LSdemocrat]

4. Agreed.

I know this and I live in Missouri.

[LSK]

21. yup

[khashka]

29. Definitely Woostah

New Englanders have the funniest accents.

Khash.

[intheflow]

41. Seeing you're from Texas,

isn't saying that New Englanders have the funniest accents like the pot calling the kettle black? :silly:

[khashka]

44. I spent most of my life in Europe

so I sound like a profoundly retarded Briton.

But I'm in Boston and making everyone say "I parked my car in Harvard Yard". An endless source of hilarity.

Khash.

[mcar]

50. That's how I always heard it too

I lived in Boston for 5 years.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I say it like Wooster

but I'm not from New England at all

[punpirate]

6. Wuss-tah.... n/t

[candy]

8. You got it exactly right!

[punpirate]

11. Oughta know...

... went to school there. :)

[candy]

12. I'm in Mass but hadn't a clue how to post it----you did the work

for me----Thanks!

I would never have thought of the "Wuss" part---cvery clever.

[MissMillie]

25. That's the right way....

Now try this one: Leicester

[Gormy Cuss]

40. Rhymes with molester

[sniffa]

49. heehee

Lie-stuh

[zanne]

59. Lester. For a long time....

I thought the town was named after a guy named Lester.

[MaineDem]

52. Exactly!

I've been to many events at the Wusstah Civic Cen'ah.

:D

[lakeguy]

9. wooster, at least that's how we say it at UPS in MN!

[maveric]

10. In the Merrimack Valley we said, "Wistah".

We also referred to a Merry go Round/Carousel as "Dobbie Horses".
We're weird in that area.

[candy]

13. In Martha's Vineyard they say "the Flying Horses"

[maveric]

17. I could never figure out what a "Dobbie" was. No one knew?

[candy]

30. Maybe Dobbie is from the old generic name for horses,Dobbin.

Like Fido and Rover were for dogs,Dobbin was for horses.

Just a guess!

[Redstone]

14. Yes, Woostah. But the Worcester in Pennsylvania is

pronounced "wor-ces-ter."

Just so you know.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My dear Redstone!

I'm going to have to take notes to keep up with all these different pronunciations! *sigh* The old memory isn't what it used to be...alas...

[Jara sang]

15. Isn't it Wooooooo-ster?

[DS1]

19. Wuster

[GCP]

48. That's exactly how it should be pronounced

Now how about Gloucestershire?

[tjwmason]

20. I'd go for Wuster

That's on the basis of the English city - I wouldn't be surprised if it's different.

Edit - better phonetic spelling

[Mrs.Matcom]

23. wista

that is how we always said it in our family.

[sniffa]

24. it's woosta damn it!!

but 'dot' is doosta

[jswordy]

26. WOO-(as in "wood")-ster

[shawmut]

27. I'm on the South Shoah and I say Wistah

[maveric]

46. You say it correctly sir!

Us Merrimack valley folks also say "Wistah".

[Modem Butterfly]

28. I say Wohster, but I also say Dorster

I love pronouncing the name Dorchester Dorster and using Worster to justify it. Bostonians make the cutest little faces when you do that...

[GOPisEvil]

31. WAR-CHES-TER! HQ of Halliburton.

:P:silly:

[woofless]

32. Wusstuh

Hay-vrill
Tooks-bry
Swamscut
Pee-buddy
Dawchestuh
Bill-rikkuh

Spell those correctly.

Woof

[yellowdogintexas]

35. OK, here goes

Haverhill
Tewkesbury
Swampscott
Peabody
Dorchester
Billerica

[maveric]

37. Proper pronounciations:

Hay-vrul
Tooks-bree
Swampskit
Pee-biddy
Doa-chstah
B'Ricka

[maveric]

38. I'm from Lah-rentz!

Born in M'tewen
Lived in Salem N'Hampshah.

[yewberry]

36. It's not Pee-buddy.

It's Pee-b'dee.

Right near Danvihs.

[Gormy Cuss]

39. Wuss tah

that's Wuss as in what a wuss, Tah.

How do you pronounce:
Leominster
Peabody
Amherst
Chatham

But I digress.

[sniffa]

42. Lem insta

am mers (or 'am merst')
chat um

[Gormy Cuss]

51. I cahn't believe it. You're wicked smaht.

What are a few silent H's with the way we throw away all those R's?

I forgot Rain um.

[bicentennial_baby]

54. Amherst

Silent H = Am'erst

[Gormy Cuss]

62. First thing U Mass students learn ! n/t

[deadparrot]

45. Well, the Blues' farm team plays there...

and people have always pronounced it Wooster.

[Left Is Write]

47. My Bostonian friends say it's "Woostah."

[MrSlayer]

53. Wore-stir is how people who can speak English pronounce it.

Is there anything uglier than a Boston accent? The letter "R", say it "AAARR", like a pirate and "ERR" like the back end of a dog's growl. Not "Ahh" like a doctor would ask you when using a tongue stick. New Yorkers have this problem too but not as bad.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

56. It's the King's English-closest thing to a British accent in the US

but there are people from Charlestown that I can't even understand because their accents are so bad...

[Nevernose]

61. Yet another reason to hate Yankees...

[maveric]

55. People from Worcester say "Wistah"

Ask Dennis Leary!

[yewberry]

57. How did I forget "The Big Woo?"

Geez, how quickly we forget.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

58. The 'Hams' of Mass.

Eastham: east-HAM
Chatham: Chatum
Dedham: Dedum
Waltham: wal-THAM
Framingham: framing-HAM
Raynham: Raynum
Stoneham: Stonum

[Gormy Cuss]

63. I learned Eastham and Chatham on my first trip to the Cape.

It made no sense to my little kid brain.

Come to think of it, what is with wal-THAM. It should be Waltum! Somebody tell Mitt.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

66. It makes no sense period

Mitt can't even get a bill passed in Mass, let alone change the name of a city! :P

[Gormy Cuss]

69. Yeah, ain't it a shame. Not.

[MissB]

67. Good Gawd.

How on earth does one keep them straight?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

78. You have to be from here

;-)

[redsoxliberal]

60. wustah

[Mass_Liberal]

64. you have two options

people generally either pronounce it 'woostah' or 'ugly'

[Kat45]

65. Then of course there's Reading, which is pronounced

Red-ing (red, not read)

And Woburn--the first syllable is pronounced Woo not Woh, and this one drives me nuts because it's constantly pronounced wrong by announcers who didn't grow up here!

[Eugene]

68. Wisster

... also Quinzee and Wooburn.

[maveric]

70. Wilmetun

[maveric]

71. And dont forget "Glostah"!

Andivah too!

[ofrfxsk]

72. When I was working at a call center many moons ago

some jerk from Worcester lost his mind when I mispronounced the name of his precious little town. It was horrible and I still can't stand MA accents because of it. No offense to MA people.

[cestpaspossible]

73. woOOst-eh

[JVS]

74. Hellhole!

[maveric]

75. With Lawrence, the most dilapidated cities in MA.

Lawrence may be a little more of a "Hellhole".

[JVS]

76. What about Lynn!

[maveric]

77. Lynn, Lynn, city of sin. You'll never come out the way you went in.

Lynn is pretty bad too.
Lawrence is a burned-out war zone. The heroin capital of NE.
Also the auto insurance fraud capital of the USA. Can you say "staged accidents"?