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shboom

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pronunciation
« on: December 12, 2002, 09:33:53 PM »
I just found this site and read that Worcester should be pronounced WOO - STER, and not WUSS - TER.  I grew up in Worcester and spent my first 25 years there.  It's WUSS - TER, not WOO -STER.

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Re: pronunciation I like WISTA OR WISTAR
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2002, 07:08:27 AM »
I like WISTA" OR WISTAR
Any way you say it, always comes out WORCESTER

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Re: pronunciation
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2003, 02:32:41 AM »
Worcester, Mass. has forever been confused (by outsiders) with Wooster, Ohio.