Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Pavel Iosad wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > > > (BTW... how is the 'Leicester' as in Leicester Sq. actually
> > > > pronounced?)
> > >
> > > ["lEst@], as heard by myself on the tube.
> >
> > Indeed.  Just as Gloucester is pronounced [glQst@], and
> > Bicester(a small town near where I live) [bIst@].
>
> And Worcester is ["wUst@] (not sure of the [U]). In older Russian we
> used to have _Glochester_, _Worchester_. Now they are also _Gloster_,
> _Vuster_. But the sauce is still _vorchester_.
Well, if it's pronounced the same as the sauce is, then it's a /U/ in
StdE. I understand there's a place in America called 'Wooster', named
after Worcester. (Though in English the sauce is Worcestershire Sauce
(with the i pronounced long but unshifted, i.e. as ee) ...  is it not in
Russian?)

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