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From: Dora Smith <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] How do you pronounce Gloucester and Worcester?
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:25:14 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <3E36D8D5.7070308@erols.com>


No we's gettin somewheahs. To say it properly in
Yorkshire dialect.

Which ethnic groups and social classes predominated in
these three areas?

Dora


--- Steve Donahue <> wrote:
> 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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