nickaix posted:superwarp1 posted:How about Worcester Mass. Is it WOR-Cester or is it WO-R-cester. Only us who live in mass know for sure and the end of the line on the old B&A now CSX.
Huh. I thought it was something along the lines of WUH-stuh? Anyway, that's how I remember my college roommate saying it. Unless he was talking about some totally different place? I kid from Mizzuruh can have trouble with some of these things!
Nickaix, you're correct. If you lack a Boston accent, as I fortunately do, then WUH-stir is allowable.
To Melgar's comment, grammar does not equal pronunciation and/or dialect.
And to Alan's comment, surely you're joking.
The once great Bill Cosby had a good bit comparing Europeans' ability to speak multiple languages vs. Americans'. "I speak Mississippi."
