shderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1876arrow-down118
arrow-up1858arrow-down1external-linkI don't know how to say this to you...sh.itjust.worksshderz@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareklemptor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoI’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI second this pronunciation.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI do Woor-cest-er-sure. Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred “war-chest” sound. But the “C” seems unused by most.
minus-squareXIIIesq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoI dk where you Americans are getting the “sure” part from, it’s much more like “she-er” or if your more northern it’d be a bit more like “sher”.
I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?
I second this pronunciation.
I do Woor-cest-er-sure.
Also northeast US but a lot less pin downable. I think of it like a slurred “war-chest” sound. But the “C” seems unused by most.
I dk where you Americans are getting the “sure” part from, it’s much more like “she-er” or if your more northern it’d be a bit more like “sher”.