Why is Worcester MA Mispronounced as "Wooster"

[nq:1]What silly person long ago came up with this backwards way to pronounce this city's name? It ought to be pronounced something like "wor-kest-tur". Instead it's MIS-pronounced as "wooster." Why?[/nq]
Why not?

Mike Nitabach

Dylan:
[nq:2]I don't understand what I have to do with it...[/nq]
[nq:1]So it worked then.[/nq]
I am SOO confused right now...help!

[nq:1]What silly person long ago came up with this backwards way to pronounce this city's name? It ought to be pronounced something like "wor-kest-tur". Instead it's MIS-pronounced as "wooster."[/nq]
What silly person would thing that? You could reasonably expect it to be pronounced "woo-sses-tuh", but if you said it quickly, the middle 'e' would soon disappear, so you don't even need to compa

[nq:1]What silly person would thing that?[/nq]
If you thing that, you've got another thing coming.

Joachim

[nq:2]What silly person would thing that?[/nq]
[nq:1]If you thing that, you've got another thing coming.[/nq]
Yuck! I can't believe I wrote that. I'd better swallow some Worcester sauce.

Rob Bannister

[nq:2]If you thing that, you've got another thing coming.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yuck! I can't believe I wrote that. I'd better swallow some Worcester sauce.[/nq]
Pronounced wor-kes-tur saw-key presumably.

Joachim

[nq:2]If you thing that, you've got another thing coming.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yuck! I can't believe I wrote that. I'd better swallow some Worcester sauce.[/nq]
I thought you were doing an AUE "in" joke.

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/

[nq:2]Yuck! I can't believe I wrote that. I'd better swallow some Worcester sauce.[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought you were doing an AUE "in" joke. He still is. Obviously you're just not "in" enough - don't you know the difference between[/nq]
Worcester sauce and Worcestershire sauce?

[nq:2]I thought you were doing an AUE "in" joke.[/nq]
[nq:1]He still is. Obviously you're just not "in" enough - don't you know the difference between Worcester sauce and Worcestershire sauce?[/nq]
I don't use it. Don't like it.

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/

[nq:2]He still is. Obviously you're just not "in" enough - don't you know the difference between Worcester sauce and Worcestershire sauce?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't use it. Don't like it.[/nq]
I'd take it over any other condiment any day. Especially good on sausage rolls (=AmE...um...anybody?).
And extremely useful in cooking.
Oddly, even though I've always seen it written as "Worcestersh