[AnimalMuppet]

There is a city in Texas named Amarillo. What is the "correct" pronunciation of that city name - the Spanish way of pronouncing the word, or the way the locals say it?

[tyingq]

Worcester, Massachusetts is also interesting, in a different way. The locals say it right, but anyone not familiar gets it wrong.

Or maybe UK folks get it right?

[tboughen]

I live 25 mins away from Worcester UK. All U.K. born adults know to pronounce it “wuster”

[barneygale]

UK pronunciation is two syllables "WUSS-tar", and most people here get it right because Worcester Sauce is a big thing.

[thaumasiotes]

Worcestershire sauce ("wiss-ta-shirr") is a thing in the US too, though not Worcester sauce.

[swish_bob]

Except it's still mostly pronounced WUSS-ter sauce in the UK.

[adrianN]

Do you mean Warchestersauce? Sponsored by Blizzard?

[thaumasiotes]

No?

[chrisseaton]

It’s pronounced wuss-tu-shu.

[thaumasiotes]

/wɪs.tə.ʃɚ/

[chrisseaton]

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/worce...

[mc32]

That reminds me of Salinas \suhleenis\ Calif and Salina \suhlainuh\ Kansas.

Sequim, WA is an interesting one.

But back Spanish, the word Mexico itself I’ve heard as: \meiko\, \’mehiko\, \’meXiko\, \’meksiko\ and of course \’meksikou\

[asveikau]

I believe that one had [ʃ] (English 'sh') when the Spanish got there but then there was a change in Spain (in Castilian only even, not in Catalan or Galician) from /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ -> /x/ (like the 'ch' in loch) and they brought it to the Americas.

Somehow those Spaniards brought that change to /x/ to all those Nahuatl place names but they never brought /θ/ to everyday speech in Mexico. I scratch my head at that.

[caf]

The way Nat King Cole pronounces it in Route 66, of course.