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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm picking "Colonel" needs to be respelled to match how it's pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I pronounce it wor-chst-sher sauce. As does my friends who aren't from London but from other parts of the UK

My London boi says Woust-er sauce.

How do you get Wor-chest-er-sher to become Woust-er? How?

I understand Wor-chst-sher you just remove some vowels in the middle.

But Wouster? You just removed the whole fucking word?? Why???

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it wor-chest-ter-shire with shire being where Frodo lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk about woust-er sauce, pretty sure that's just dropping a syllable.

But the rest of it is because the syllables are supposed to be worce-ster-shire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brits do stuff like that. For example, the city Gloucester is pronounced "Gloss-ter"