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From: "Dorothy Leinhauser" <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] How do you pronounce Gloucester and Worcester?
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:08:18 -0500
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When my daughterinlaw said she was a Godner, I didn't know if she worked for
God or planted flowers. It turned out she worked for God.
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From: "Steve Donahue" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] How do you pronounce Gloucester and Worcester?


> Just my two cents..having grown up there, the pronounciation is either
> Wusster or Wustah..depending upon where in town you came from (Main
> South was a little more Wusstah, Burncoat, etc., a little more
> Wusster)..and if you were down along the Green Street area, you might
> even hear a Wistah every now and then.
>
> Steve D.
>
> A Mass Yankee in the South
>
> Alison Franks wrote:
>
> >Hi Dora:
> >Worcester is pronounced more like Wuster - like a Wussie
> >Gloucester, Ma and Glocester, RI is pronounced Glosster - like Gloss
> >
> >There is a Wooster, OH which is pronouned as Woo-ster
> >Regards,
> >Alison Franks
> >Archivist, Rawson Family Association
> >
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