Re: [Richard III Society Forum] How do you pronounce "Gloucester",

I always thought that Worcester was pronounced Wister. My mom went to college
in Massachusetts and she corrected me when I said Wooster lol. But honestly,
I'm not 100% sure on how to pronounced Gloucester either LOL.

-Victoria
"Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones."-Oscar
Wilde

At 09:58 AM 1/28/03 EST, you wrote:
>I always thought that Worcester was pronounced Wister. My mom went to
college
>in Massachusetts and she corrected me when I said Wooster lol. But honestly,
>I'm not 100% sure on how to pronounced Gloucester either LOL.
>

Well, that's wooster as in "took" -- not wooster as in "rooster." And
wooster as in "took' sounds more like wister than rooster.

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oh ok LOL. The spelling just confused me a little bit. These high school
midterms are really getting to me

-Victoria
"Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones."-Oscar
Wilde

At 12:49 PM 1/28/03 -0500, Laura Blanchard wrote:
>At 09:58 AM 1/28/03 EST, you wrote:
> >I always thought that Worcester was pronounced Wister. My mom went to
>college
> >in Massachusetts and she corrected me when I said Wooster lol. But
> honestly,
> >I'm not 100% sure on how to pronounced Gloucester either LOL.
> >
>
>Well, that's wooster as in "took" -- not wooster as in "rooster." And
>wooster as in "took' sounds more like wister than rooster.

Especially when you add in the flat vowels of an eastern
Massachusetts/Boston accent - you know, the one notorious for leaving a
stationary automobile near some college quadrangle or other - where they
actually do pronounce it a closer to wistah (no 'r' on the end here) than
wooster, even with the oo as in took. Gloucester up on the north shore
(where the real life story and file version of A Perfect Storm happened
FWIW) is Glostuh to them, Glowster to me. Sigh. What can I say, they talk
funny here. Sorting out the difference between the natives saying Waban vs
Woburn took longer than learning to pronounce Aberystwyth on sight while
wandering around Wales.

What I've never been able to figure out is why people can ask for
worcestershire sauce with no problem but spend 10 minutes sorting out the
shorter town name.

Kim

LOL!

But respect your mother! She is very wise! (gwin)

Dora

--- hockeygirl1016@... wrote:
> I always thought that Worcester was pronounced
> Wister. My mom went to college
> in Massachusetts and she corrected me when I said
> Wooster lol. But honestly,
> I'm not 100% sure on how to pronounced Gloucester
> either LOL.
>
> -Victoria
> "Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin
> of pretty ones."-Oscar
> Wilde
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>


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?????!!!!!!!

>
> Well, that's wooster as in "took" -- not wooster as
> in "rooster." And
> wooster as in "took' sounds more like wister than
> rooster.
>
> --
> Laura Blanchard
> lblancha@... (Philadelphia Area
> Consortium of Special
> Collections Libraries
> lblanchard@... (all other mail)
> Home office: 215-985-1445 voice, -1446 fax
> http://pobox.upenn.edu/~lblancha
>
>


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Everyone who left us documents that bear on Richard
and his situation spelled phonetically and employed
multiple phonetic spellings for the same word.

Buckingham, for instance, spelled his own name a
variety of ways, including Bokingham.

If Gloucester is Gloster, why did Richard spell his
name "Gloucestre"?

Dora

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Dora Smith30/01/2003 16:14tiggernut24@...

> If Gloucester is Gloster, why did Richard spell his
> name "Gloucestre"?
for the same reasons that spellings like language and pronunciation have all
changed dramatically in England since the 15th century.
>Whereabouts in England are you?
I'm a Londoner.
>Ah you in Yorkshire?
Not any more. I lived there for 9 years (ooh I wonder who else did that:-)!
>How do they pronounce the word Yorkshire, anyhow?
Just as written oddly enough.
Paul