Hello Debra, I have seen Worcestershire sauce sold here, but always in imported, recognizable bottles. I just looked up the Chinese equivalent and they transliterate it as something like Woo Si Te--but I doubt that any local person would have any idea of what this is if you asked for it. --Jim
Funny, I do know how to pronounce the word (as long as I'm not reading it). I, however, choose to pronounce it the way my grandmother did when telling me a long-forgotten joke back when I was a little kid. I remember the warmth and love in her voice. To this day I prefer to call it "What's this here sauce".
🤣 My Grammy was also that kind of silly and said "what's this here sauce?" We kids had a follow up, though. We would chuckle and tell Grammy to "try saying THAT three times fast!" She would get tongue-tied of course with "whaztuhsusuch" and we would shout (really fast) "no, that that that!" And we would laugh because we caught her again! It was years later when I remembered she would be smirking as she turned away. She was letting us "win." Every single time. 😁 Grandmothers, amirite? 🥰
Thoroughly enjoyed the memes and have bottled up many a guffaw hearing folks try to pronounce it. We go with 'wusta shure' but only from trying many other versions. Thanks for the laughs!
You'd think Worcestershire was coined by a tipsy leprechaun...as the spelling and pronunciation don't quite go together, which an Irishman enjoying a tipple or ten, would find hilarious for the English to attempt ....
Geeze, I've been living under a rock. I thought it was spelled with an "h" and pronounced "Wor-cHes-ter" sauce. Help me, SWS. Help me. And thank you for teaching me something new with my every visit.
I don't know if you're right or wrong but you are funny. I love that across the world, many of share this impossible word. That and I often hear peeeeeecon and peeeeeeecan.
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You nailed it! And yet Dorchester isn't pronounced dustah. That's just wrong.
Yes you have explained it perfectly
LOL!!!! I had no idea till now this was a world crumbling issue. Its a sad commentary!!
I believe you've got it. Now I can say it. Thanks.
I think she’s got it. Tough one though!
...and I've never thought about this.
I used to pronounce it as "Warchestershyer Sauce" until I watched a British cooking show and learned the correct way!
Are you having a stroke, sir?
I have always pronounced Wooster-sheer sauce. I think you and I are on the same page.
I still can't say that and other weird words...medications are just as bad! LOL!
I was pronouncing it correctly until I finished reading through all the memes. Then I was completely tongue tied.
It was the worst of them.
Hello Debra, I have seen Worcestershire sauce sold here, but always in imported, recognizable bottles. I just looked up the Chinese equivalent and they transliterate it as something like Woo Si Te--but I doubt that any local person would have any idea of what this is if you asked for it.
--Jim
This was a hard post to wrap my brain around first thing on a Monday morning :-)
Worse-ta-shur. It may not be correct Brit, but it's how we pronounce it. LOL.
Funny, I do know how to pronounce the word (as long as I'm not reading it). I, however, choose to pronounce it the way my grandmother did when telling me a long-forgotten joke back when I was a little kid. I remember the warmth and love in her voice. To this day I prefer to call it "What's this here sauce".
LOL! And don’t forget Whatsthishere Sauce.
And there it is! I just posted my comment and THEN read Deedles’.
🤣 My Grammy was also that kind of silly and said "what's this here sauce?" We kids had a follow up, though. We would chuckle and tell Grammy to "try saying THAT three times fast!" She would get tongue-tied of course with "whaztuhsusuch" and we would shout (really fast) "no, that that that!" And we would laugh because we caught her again! It was years later when I remembered she would be smirking as she turned away. She was letting us "win." Every single time. 😁 Grandmothers, amirite? 🥰
Wor Chester Shire or WCS - Don't ruin a good steak by covering it with WCS
the Ol'Buzzard
Thoroughly enjoyed the memes and have bottled up many a guffaw hearing folks try to pronounce it. We go with 'wusta shure' but only from trying many other versions.
Thanks for the laughs!
I pronounce it A1 sauce.
"Exactly" BWAHAHAHAHAHA
I know how to pronounce it, but I prefer to say west chester sauce.
It's my life. I can say it any way I want!
Patricia
Living in Southern New England we often pass through Worcester, MA. Here, it's pronounced "Woo-stah". So "Woosta-shah" sauce is quite adjacent.
round these parts we just call it wusstah sauce...... but i am sure Yorkshire Pudding will tell you...... up north we prefer Hendo's!!
I just read these out loud and we both laughed maniacally!
Just say Lea & Perrins sauce and everyone will know. By the way it sounds more like Wustershire rather than Woostershire.
Wasn’t that the 3 Stooges?
I lost all train of thought with the Dominatrix.
Priorities....
XOXO
You made my day with these memes
That's how we were taught to say it.
You'd think Worcestershire was coined by a tipsy leprechaun...as the spelling and pronunciation don't quite go together, which an Irishman enjoying a tipple or ten, would find hilarious for the English to attempt ....
Safe word, lol.
Geeze, I've been living under a rock. I thought it was spelled with an "h" and pronounced "Wor-cHes-ter" sauce. Help me, SWS. Help me. And thank you for teaching me something new with my every visit.
The memes are funny, and yes, I believe you nailed it!
I don't know if you're right or wrong but you are funny. I love that across the world, many of share this impossible word. That and I often hear peeeeeecon and peeeeeeecan.
I just call it worcester sauce. But love the worst of/best of shires.
Whats-this-here-sauce
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