On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:32:31AM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> People from Missouri have the same problem (miz-uhr-rah, instead of
> miz-er-eee ;) Then you've got the people from Mass. that think
> Worcester is pronounced "woo-ster" instead of "wur-ses-ter"! Clearly,
> that place name has three syllables.
Well, the capital city is called bus-ten ("ten" that rhymes with "ster"
above), right?
Oki