>>>>>>There is a British surname Featherstonhaugh (Fanshaw). There is also a town in England by that name.
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>>>>>I stuck my foot in my mouth buying a ticket in the London Underground when I said I wanted a fare to Leicester Square, pronouncing it Lie-chest-er. "Generally we pronounce it Lester," the agent said drily.
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>>>>And in one novel Borislav Pekić, while in exile in London, describes how he couldn't find "meliboun roud" [mellybone road] anywhere on the map. Because it's spelt as Marylebone.
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>>>Ah, the reversal of letters because it makes more 'sense'. Around here, you can always tell when someone's NOT from around here (Central Texas) because they pronounce New Braunfels and 'New Brownsfull'
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>>In case you got me wrong - Pekić heard everybody mentioning it as Mellybone. Though, hand on heart, I heard it pronounced only once, as Marrilybone, but then that was by a Scotsman.
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>>Everybody here thinks that sauce is pronounced vorčester - warchester - and I've heard the natives should pronounce it more like wooster. Never had it on the table, so didn't have the excuse to ask when I had a chance. At least, I used the chance and the excuse, when I had it, for a more important question, once I was in the position to ask it: "how do you pronounce your last name". Felt nice to be on the other end of it for once, and the victim didn't even think of the cop out answer ("easily!").
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>More like wuster sauce (Lea & Perrins). It wouldn't be wooster pronounced like booster.

Massachusetts is probably the state with the most remaining traces of the mother tongue. Worcester is pronounced Woostuh.

And its most famous citizen encouraged all Americans to approach problems with viguh.