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Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set)
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Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:30:20 GMT
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Rob Doucette <lugnet@doucettenet.#avoidspam#com>
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Worcester gets butchered much more often than Gloucester ;-)   Woooster,
War-chester, Wuss-stah, ...
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-Rob.

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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G0uxIx.77J@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
Jumping into this late... The town of Glouchester MA is also pronounced
Gloss-ter. A teacher of mine had an amusing tale of the attempts of some
tourists to pronounce it. A man and his wife were arguing over the
pronounciation, with the man pronouncing it glou-chester (where glou
ryhmes with ow - an exclamation you might make on stepping on some
LEGO). I forget what the wife was arguing for, but I think it was wrong
also. They asked the teacher who said "gloss-ter" at which point the man
triumphantly said to his wife: "see, I told you it was glou-chester."!

I have a friend from MN who visited there and calls it • "glow-chester-shire"
("glow" rhyming with "plow").  :-)

I think I've also heard Gloucester called "glocks-tah" and "gluss-tah."



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  Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set)
 
(...) There's a town in Ohio pronounced the same way but actually spelled "Wooster".... (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.oh)

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  Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set)
 
(...) I have a friend from MN who visited there and calls it "glow-chester-shire" ("glow" rhyming with "plow"). :-) I think I've also heard Gloucester called "glocks-tah" and "gluss-tah." --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)

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