Tom:
Quite good!
"WASH uh taw" is the local pronunciation. I live in the Quachita Mountain region... in the town of (are you ready for another one?): Poteau.
Worcester:
Way back in my dark ages (when my hair was dark... yup, I had hair once) I was driving a truck headed for Armpit, MA or someplace. Was wondering how far I had to go, so while at a truck stop on on the western edge of MA I asked a local how far it was to "Wore ces ter". The guy looked at me funny... asking... "Where??". I pronounced it again "WORE CES TER". He explained there WASN'T such a place. I countered there was... so I produced my map Atlas and pointed to the place.
He burst out laughing at my hillbilly dialect and said "Oh! You mean WUSter!"... well WUSter is only about another (how ever many miles)!"
Guess I gave him a good laugh.
Andre
