[78-L] Baroosh

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Feb 22 19:42:16 PST 2013


On 2/22/2013 10:32 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 2/22/2013 7:01 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
>> My own surname is an issue.  In England it's CHICHester, but we pronounce it CHAIchester, though many Americans use the British pronounciation.  We figure, since we won the Revolution, we can pronounce it any way we want too!  8>) Don
>>
> Hmf. I thought it was "Chister" as in "Worchester" ("Worster").
>
But Worcester is pronounced "Wooster" and the sauce is pronounced 
"Woostersher", although I once heard a waitress call it "Wurchester".

dl


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