[denton-scratch]

> "wooster sauce"

"That's just incorrect. It's pronounced "wooster-shuh". The double-O is short, as in "book". Worcestershire Sauce is sometimes simply called "woosters", as in "a dash of woosters".

> Frome in Somerset is one of the hardest place names to pronounce

Hardly. It's pronounced "froom". That's not so hard.

[ndsipa_pomu]

I got Frome from here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249

I agree that it's not tricky to pronounce, but the difficulty is pronouncing it correctly.

Worcestershire sauce can be called "wooster-shuh sauce" or "wooster sauce" or as you say, "woosters".

[chriswarbo]

> The double-O is short, as in "book"

Bad example, since some accents pronounce "book" like "kook" (not like "suck") ;)

[denton-scratch]

Fair do's; scousers indeed pronounce "book" as "bewk".

[mnw21cam]

One of my ambitions in life is to make a pronunciation guide using example words that are pronounced differently by different people.

[ndsipa_pomu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet

Also, this scene from Archer cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZrMfs

[bee_rider]

There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh.

[nobody9999]

>There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh.

And there's a Gloucester[0] (pronounced 'Gloster' or, more likely in MA 'Glostah') there as well. And there's one[1] in Virgnia too, (Wikipedia says it's pronounced 'Gloster', but I don't know the VA accent well enough to know if that's locally correct).

There are other similar place names around the US, mostly on the eastern seaboard, for obvious reasons, as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester,_Massachusetts

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia