I deliberately add far too many syllables to worcestershire sauce so that everyone thinks I’m just being funny when I am actually hiding the fact that I have no idea to pronounce it.
@@matthewschneider6725 pretty sure they meant the comment was unprompted-they were prompted to pronounce ‘Worcestershire sauce’ and they said that instead
Fyi, towns in England with the "cester" (not "chester") suffix are mostly pronounced in that same abbreviated way: Worcester = "Wooster" Gloucester = "Gloster" Bicester = "Bister" Towcester = "Toaster" (Yes, really) The odd one out is Cirencester, which is pronounced "Siren-sesster"
I notice the first four examples you give all have just one syllable before the -cester part. Cirencester has two syllables before the -cester. I wonder if that has to do with why the "ces" syllable isn't elided, something to do with syllable stress patterns (metric feet~)
@@woodfur00 yeah but that stuff isn't fish lmao. I love worcestershire sause, but the thought of fermenting fish is still a thing that makes me a little uncomfortable 🤣 Edit: love the troll icon
2:27 the upside down e is called "schwa" and in the international phonetic alphabet it represents the o in bacon, the last i in infinite, the a and o in abandon etc. Bassicly, an unstressed vowel
@@mansur_ali yeah, in Azeri Turkish the symbol represents the same sound as in "bad", but in the IPA it represents the schwa. It's like how in English (pronounced like Azeri ) has a different pronunciation from /j/ in the ipa (the in "you")
@@erentoraman2663 unsettling news for me. That is the pinnacle of pronounciation for me and IPA decided to *not* stress it?? I'm gonna fight the IPA for this. Bilgi için teşekkürler btw
@@brvo8188 Don't let it get you down 😁 I personally believe that some sounds are just unattainable unless you're a native speaker of that language. I'm German, so Umlauts are no problem for me, but I took a course in Russian once and all their 5.000 different "sch"-sounds remained undoable for me 😂
@@Sonja147 yeah, I definitely agree with the sound thing, it can be really difficult for some people, even with english. I know some people who have a lot of difficulty pronounced certain sounds in english because it's not their first language.
I can't even type how I say it, I say it really fast and with a Scottish accent. My exs American family got me to say it, and immediately regretted even asking and went back to what they were saying instead, lmfao. Thereafter, sometimes I would wake up, roll over, look at my ex, and just say worchestershire sauce at her. Instead of hello or good morning, or I love you. Lmfao I'll try typing how I say it... wursh-chur-shur sauce? But really fucking fast. It took about 5mins for me to try break it down enough that I could understand how I say it in pronounce form...
I have yet to actually speak it's name because I've _heard_ it pronounced before, but I feel like I'll still butcher it horribly and somehow accidentally speak fluent Latin in the process and summon a demon
My mum was friends with an old guy named Ron who was 6'2" and looked like the monopoly man. He always said woostershereshireshure sauce. He was absolutely adorable
Being English feels like holding unholy power when watching everyone fail at pronouncing Worcestershire. It’s like being the only kid in DT class who can remember how to use the laser cutter.
As someone who has lived in a state [Massachusetts] with a Worcester (city and county) from birth, I find I pronounce both words almost as intended. FYI: Ohio was settled mostly by people from Massachusetts and other New England states as a territory. Having no real connection to England, they simplified the spelling of their analogous town to Wooster, which I find both fitting and very clever.
I stayed in Worcestershire UK, the place where it was invented. They even make a cheese with the sauce added to the curds before aging it, it's salty but so good.
I love flexing on people about being able to pronounce this word. However, the spelling really doesn't help, and I'm sure if i weren't British, I sure as hell wouldn't be able to say it either- As someone who lives in the county of Worcestershire It honestly sucks ass to spell for most people, especially those who are dyslexic like me, so it is absolutely understandable that people struggle to pronounce it. I'd say the best way to describe how it's supposed to be pronounced is something like: "Wuss - tur - sheer" Or: "Wuss - tur - shyer" in some parts of the UK. It's still hard to say Worcestershire sauce, even if you can say Worcestershire correctly, because the amount of "s" sounds in it just gets you tounge tied and you end up saying: "Wusstehshisorce" Or: "Wosashasaush" Hell, even the company can't even pronounce it right-
I remember hearing a joke when I was a kid about Worcestershire sauce where the punchline was "What's this here sauce"... I can't remember the joke but that damn punchline has always stuck with me
2:57 Appalling that Matt Rose would pick on this person who clearly has some sort of developmental problems. You can tell by the incorrectly worn mask. Good on the supermarket for letting him have a job, though. He's doing his best. Poor thing.
This is one of the words I can only say so long as I'm not looking at the word when I say it. Put the word in front of me, I over-analyze, panic, and add two unnecessary syllables.