convinced I am adding letters here and there and it makes no sense to me. it was absolutely not Woo-stuh. It was Wisstah. Oh wow. So LOTS of people get it wrong, even those who live there. How bizarre.... ;) Worcestershire (the sauce, the county and the county town) is Woo-stuh. I claim precedent by some several hundred years (at the least). Wikipedia, interestingly, gives the same pronunciation for both, but I'm not sure where that leaves us, as it agrees with the English pronunciation (but who added the phonetic stuff?). posted by Brockles at 11:56 AM on January 3 Some of the other loan words are arguable, too, but those two are straight-up proper nouns from another language. So how long do we have to squat on a word before we can say it's and English word ("from the Greek ...") instead of calling it a Greek word? posted by straight at 12:00 PM on January 3 What gets me most in english is when pronunciations switch base on whether they're a noun or adjective. Octagon, and octagonal, for example. posted by FirstMateKate at 12:01 PM on January 3 it was absolutely not Woo-stuh. It was Wisstah. There are accents that will pronounce woo-stah in a way that sounds like wisstah to others (and I'm guessing that this accented pronunciation got picked up in turn by people whose accent would normally give woo-stah). So I'm going to assume that this isn't a case of being wrong, so much as