is there anyone from Worcestershire who can tell us how its said?
If you can read IPA you can look it up in most dictionaries. In fact, most dictionaries will even have a table which shows which sign represents which sound.
edit: woos-ta (as in ago)-sha (again as in ago) (in RP)
This is how I'd say it. Not from Worcestershire but am from one of the other 'shires' and shire is said shir with a soft r.
try and say this sentence in a Sean Connery accent
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i dunno if thats true or what... but it made me laugh
sorry if its true... but the Harare thing is
edit: i just re-read it... i thought you meant you had that speech impediment... but alas you dont... rhododendron
what do you mean 'alas you don't' ? I'm pretty fuckin pleased I don't Specially as my favourite song is Red River Rock, man I'd never be able to shout out a request for it .
Yep. I am able to pronounce it perfectly now. I practised it for my oral literature exam. I knew it would come in handy, I had to discuss Hamlet
Yeah, well it never really was necessary in my life till uni and then I had to get it right for when I was calling a show. It got pretty hairy there on some of the technical rehearsals though. Specially coz you're so tired and haven't seen daylight in a week. Doesn't roll so easily off the tongue then.
I'm a native of Worcester, is that close enough? Its Wister-shire, like I said before.
Wikipedia shows Wuster-shire but what do they know?
i didnt know you were from there...
I just came off the phone with the Duke of Worcestershire... he said i was right.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
i'm always tempted to say "stragedy" instead of "strategy", and then i know it's wrong, and i try to think of the word "tragedy" and say the opposite, but then i really get mixed up and tounge tied....
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Hands down, the hardest word to pronounce: metasticised
Whenever I attempt it, I fail and just say "spread" instead.
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If you can read IPA you can look it up in most dictionaries. In fact, most dictionaries will even have a table which shows which sign represents which sound.
edit: woos-ta (as in ago)-sha (again as in ago) (in RP)
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It's actually pronounced "Holbrook's" OR "Lea & Perrins".
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This is how I'd say it. Not from Worcestershire but am from one of the other 'shires' and shire is said shir with a soft r.
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That's how it's pronounced at our house.
Solved a lot of problems.
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well okey dokey tis your language, so ill take this.
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try and say this sentence in a Sean Connery accent
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what do you mean 'alas you don't' ? I'm pretty fuckin pleased I don't
you mean try and shay a shentensh with a Sean Connery acshent.
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Yep. I am able to pronounce it perfectly now. I practised it for my oral literature exam. I knew it would come in handy, I had to discuss Hamlet
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I'm a native of Worcester, is that close enough?
Wikipedia shows Wuster-shire but what do they know?
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Yeah, well it never really was necessary in my life till uni and then I had to get it right for when I was calling a show. It got pretty hairy there on some of the technical rehearsals though.
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i didnt know you were from there...
I just came off the phone with the Duke of Worcestershire... he said i was right.
i'm always tempted to say "stragedy" instead of "strategy", and then i know it's wrong, and i try to think of the word "tragedy" and say the opposite, but then i really get mixed up and tounge tied....
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Can't we just use accent marks? That'd be a lot easier than silent letters and long/short vowels. English is a stupid language.
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Whenever I attempt it, I fail and just say "spread" instead.
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