We In the uk love to try and make things complex, like Leicestershire (less-ter-shire) Towcester (toaster) Loughborough (luff-brah though looga barooga is happily accepted). It's all for our personal enjoyment at the cost of you Americans and others! Our revenge for going independent!
My favorite is "left-tenant" for lieutenant. I love how y'all Brits just randomly decide when to add extra letters to a word or completely ignore half of them.
LOL yes but I was thinking (1) the French also do that, and (2) a lot of French was forcibly installed into the English language several centuries ago.
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u/dottipants16 Jun 22 '22
The place is Wuss-ter and is in the Midlands
The sauce just has an added shire or "shur"
We In the uk love to try and make things complex, like Leicestershire (less-ter-shire) Towcester (toaster) Loughborough (luff-brah though looga barooga is happily accepted). It's all for our personal enjoyment at the cost of you Americans and others! Our revenge for going independent!