LAST EDITED ON 01-22-03 AT 06:46 PM (EST)
 
>(On the other hand, I haven't
>the faintest idea how to pronounce "Worcester."

WUSS'ter, first syllable rhymes with... well, "wuss". Second syllable often rendered "tah" in the local dialect, but not always.

I'm not sure how the English city's name is pronounced; I would suspect the "orce" has a longer "oo" sound, as in "rooster", but the US city's name is not pronounced this way, at least not by its own residents.

(Note, however, that there is a city in eastern Massachusetts, Woburn, whose name is pronounced with that sound - "WOO'bun".)

That's a good point about Kozue, though. It's just that the Worcester thing has been going on for a lot longer than Kozue's been one of my players...

--G.
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