I don't get the adding in the r in a word that doesn't have an r, like bought.

Oh fer gawds sake Ozzie :-) Ever play charades? Sounds like?

p.s. wash is pronounced wosh.

bought - bawt
wash - wawsh

Plough is spelled and pronounced plow. Yes, that means the term snow plow has two different pronunciations of "ow."

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Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

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I don't get the adding in the r in a word that doesn't have an r, like bought.

Oh fer gawds sake Ozzie :-) Ever play charades? Sounds like?

p.s. wash is pronounced wosh.

lol Yes, I've played charades, but bought doesn't sound like bort. ;-)

Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

Please pass the Worcey sauce. :-D

Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

I pronounce it "Worstersheer"...

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Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

they would say Brown sauce. Pronounced brow-n not br-own.

In Canada they don't seem to know what brown sauce is. They have HP sauce.

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Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

I actually do this, every chance I get. It can be great fun, eh.

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@ES99 -

Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

they would say Brown sauce. Pronounced brow-n not br-own.

In Canada they don't seem to know what brown sauce is. They have HP sauce.

We don't have brown or HP sauce; it might be in some stores, but it's not widely popular.

Wusstersher, with the U sounding the same as in tush. (I have ancestors from the area of Worcester, Massachusetts.)

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Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

Leicester square is easy though:)

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@ES99 -

Just try getting an American to say Worcestershire sauce.

they would say Brown sauce. Pronounced brow-n not br-own.

In Canada they don't seem to know what brown sauce is. They have HP sauce.

Depends on the Canadian. My wife usually has at least two types of Worcestershire in the cupboard, plus HP. We also have Katsup, from Holland, which is nothing like ketchup. And Maggi, from Holland as well. I know this is a brand name for a lot of stuff, but we use the term in our house to refer to their brown sauce, which is closer to soya sauce then to HP. Mr dearly departed mother-in-law would sometimes refer to soya sauce as "that Chinese Maggi".

All this shows the beauty and at the same time the difficulty in English. We freely adapt terms from other languages, along with their spellings and pronunciations. Makes for a colourful, but confusing, language.

It also means that all the local dialects of English are quite legitimate, eh.

Noo doobt aboot it, as Celt would say.

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Hoser?

Edit:
Keep your stick on the ice.....

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Chris, I take it your source is not Canadian. Everybody knows it came from "hose bag", which came from ... well, I don't want us to get moderated.

Back when I first started hearing "hoser" most ice rinks didn't involve a hose. That was just for the rich kids in big cities.

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Hoser is both a slang term and a derogatory term, originating from Canada and used primarily by those imitating Canadians. The term "hoser" gained popularity from the comedic skits by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas (also known as Bob and Doug McKenzie) in SCTV’s "The Great White North" segments.

The most popular origin story holds that in outdoor ice hockey before ice resurfacers, the losing team in a hockey game would have to hose down the rink after a game to make the ice smooth again. Thus the term "hoser" being synonymous with "loser". Another story hold that the term referred to farmers of the Canadian prairies, who would siphon gasoline from farming vehicles with a hose during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

"Hoser" was a derogatory term popular in the Toronto suburb of Downsview during the 1970s and 1980s. It is a variation of "hose bag." Moranis grew up in this area, and would have been familiar with the common teenage slang at the time.

Moreannus, or more anus?

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Chris, I take it your source is not Canadian

You are correct it wasn't.

The most popular origin story holds that in outdoor ice hockey .....

It is a variation of "hose bag"

It seems there is a nice story for those of a sensitive disposition, and the rather more crude truth, both of which the quote referred to.

Where the Canadians get their beer.
Mouse pee. LOL. I am kidding, of course.
Some other comedians, not me.

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Where we really get our beer.

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Where we really get our beer.

OMG, Bill.

I have several old Firesign Theatre albums.
I never heard them mentioned here before just now.
They were very off the wall humourists.
At times, even I did not think them that funny.
But I bought about 4 of their albums before I figured that out.

Yeah, Bear Whiz Beer.

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I have yet to see a chief of police who didn't have at least 4 stars. I'm sure they work hard and deserve to be where they are but for crying out loud ...