El Salvador has the world's highest per capita consumption of Worcestershire Sauce.
Some years ago, I asked for a Tomato juice on an internal USA flight. I asked if they had any Worcestershire sauce (pronounced the correct, British way). The stewardess, noting the clearly Brit passenger said that she thought she had some in her bag, and went off to get it. Came back, added the magic ingredient to my TJ, then asked me to repeat my (correct) pronounciation. Just for fun as it were, and I obliged. Big grin on her face.
On disembarking, she stopped me at the door and said "Just one more time......?
It must be terrible for the USAnians, can't pronounce Worcestershire, aluminium, nuclear.... I could go on.....
Which reminds me..... Boarding the shuttle from Heathrow to Edinburgh many years ago, walking down the aisle behind an obviously American gentleman, in his hat and checked trousers, behind his equally striking wife. She turned to him and in that loud, booming vocal style that they can have said " Gee, Elmer, honeybun, are you sure this is the 'plane to Ee-din-berg? Smirks all around from those in earshot (so most of the 'plane then).
There is an Edinboro in PA, and there's an Edinboro University there (of course, where else would you put it?). Apparently named after the Scottish capital. That seemed a peculiarly common pronunciation, people often struggled with Edinburgh (the university of which being my alma mater, came up a lot). The others berged it.
Connecticut had some splendid pronunciations of British place names. A perfectly phonetic
Norwich made me laugh every time.
CO-ven-try.
Thames as you'd imagine it ought to pronounced.
Greenwich is correct though and older people in
Norwich do still seem to say it the British way and elide the
w.
Worcester, MA is
WOOster though
Warwick, RI, is is WAR-wick, though New Englander do like to strangle their Rs like a serial killer in a basement, so it's more of a
Wuw-wick. It's very confusing.
On the plus side, (some) American women found the British accent strangely aphrodisiacal, a phenomenon that I, of course, never once exploited.
