Sauce.

  • charokol@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    It’s only hard to pronounce because we’re parsing the syllables in the wrong spot. Try reading it as worce|ster|shire. The S sounds at the end and beginning of the first and second syllables blend together

    • egrets@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Less rhoticity, WUSS-tuh-shuh – but pretty much everyone calls it Worcester (WUSS-tuh) sauce.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    I corrected my kiddo every time she’d try to say it until she was probably the only 8 year old in the tri state area that could say it correctly.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I think that we can retire this joke already. It has been repeated by every single food related youtuber. It’s pronounced Wooster.