Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms How do you say "Worcestershire sauce"?

Sorry I just cringed a little bit inside

To be a little more precise, I pronounce “sure” as “ sher”. So “worse ster sher”. We don’t know how to speak English anymore.

I always thought the Scots said "shire" and the English "sheer".

Its Yorksher.......

Yes, but you're not English, you're Yorkshire. So I've been told by Jess.

But what really gets to me is Sconn.

Scone for goodness sake.Rhymes with bone.


Oh and making "a" sound like "ar"

So Barth instead of Bath.

Grrr!

Sorry, rhymes with gone. Unless it's the village.

My version of English....

Scone as in gone
Bath as in laugh

Both identify the speaker as predominantly southern.

I’m with Bob on this one, but how to pronounce it is almost as debateable as whether to put the jam on first or the cream

Oh, and sorry Dave but I pronounce Bath “Barth”

I guess it’s all down to where you were brought up. Personally I love the different accents and dialects we have and think they should be treasured because with the globalisation we have they may disappear all to quickly.

Having lived in, and gone to school in, many counties starting with Yorkshire and ending with Kent via Bristol, Surrey and Hertfordshire, I have picked up many ways of pronouncing things and have come to the conclusion that you have to say things as you say them and not necessarily as the local residents do. I find it odd that there is now an effort for newsreaders, in particular, to sport a local pronunciation for a place name when they would otherwise say it in their own style.
For instance great play seems to be made for non Geordies to pronounce Newcastle with a hard 'a' as in 'ass' but if they haven't pronounced it this way before it always sounds wrong to me. It's a bit like advocating that we all call Paris 'Paree' now, after all that is the way all French folk pronounce it. Same goes for Bath: the locals pronounce it with a very wide 'a' and rolling 'r' and to suggest it should be hard short 'a' would sound wrong to me. Each to his own with no singular way I think.