[bigger_cheese]

I'm Australian and I've always pronounced "Source" and "Sauce" such that they sound the same.

I think the rhyming slang part comes from Cockney slang my Dad always used to say "Dogs Eye and Dead Horse" to mean Meat Pie and Tomato Sauce.

He had other strange slang he'd use too like "Oxford Scholar" to mean "One Dollar" - UK uses pounds though so no idea where that one originated...

What is the American pronunciation of Sauce? If I had to guess maybe they pronounce it so it sounds like "Sores" or "Saws".

I don't know if I've ever heard an American say Sauce. On most American tv shows they talk about 'Ketchup'. Eg Hot Dog and Ketchup, which is a Frankfurt with Tomato sauce on a bun (doesn't really have the same ring...).

[pests]

Ha, yeah I'd say its pretty close to "saws"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCm4VS9VMSM

That's 100% spot on.

I'm in the northeastern area of the country, it may be different for other areas.

[nkrisc]

> What is the American pronunciation of Sauce?

Where I come from, it’s more like “sos” or I think “sas” in IPA.

Most often like “saws” (the cutting tools would be “sawz”)

[dreamcompiler]

"Saws" except the last consonant is a true "s" sound, not a zed :-)