Talk:Worcestershire

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Pronunciation

I have changed the phonetic pronunciation from 'wustashur' and 'wustasheer' to the examples shown, as I feel they are more clear.

Though "wusta" in the British English spoken in the county would surely rhyme with "[General] Custer" - and I've never heard that!

Changed the phonetic spelling again and added the OED format.--Shastrix 22:35, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

After looking at the Worcester page, I have converted the pronunciation into IPA --Shastrix 6 July 2005 14:10 (UTC)

Not certain where to put this comment, but here seems reasonable as I'm primarily thinking of Worcestershire: there's an inconsistency with the "List of places in X" articles as to whether they refer to the ceremonial county or the modern administrative one. For example, Stourbridge is included in the list of places in Worcestershire, and Telford in the list of places in Shropshire - but Wolverhampton is not included in the list of places in Staffordshire, which historically it is part of. Which is right? Loganberry 00:34, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Stourbridge shouldn't be on the list as it is now in the West Midlands (unless there is a 'places formerly within' section or something). However Telford is OK as it is still ceremonially part of Shropshire if not administratively. Wolverhampton is also part of the West Midlands. G-Man 19:14, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

wtf is going on with the malvern (home of the morgan sports car) thing. lets be honest morgan coming from worcestershire is not first paragraph stuff.seems like advertising to me. -jg.

[edit] Userbox

Just to let you know there's now the {{user Worcestershire}} userbox which you can add to your userpage and which will automatically add you to Category:Wikipedians in Worcestershire. --Daduzi ^talk 16:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brummie Twang?

"The north such as Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Redditch consists of a Brummie twang"

As someone who has lived in Bromsgrove for most of his life this doesn't seem quite right, Redditch and Kidderminster it seems fairly accurate for but not Bromsgrove. I'm not sure how you'd describe the Bromsgrove accent, but I most certainly wouldn't describe as being like the Brummie accent.

The unsigned comment above draws attention to the problems of speech accents. I agree that the whole sentence is probably inaccurate. Kidderminster's accent has far more in common with the Black Country towns of Stourbridge, Dudley, Halesowen and the communities of Gornal, Lower Gornal, Blackheath and Cradley Heath with whom it had trading links for over two centuries. Redditch's accent may well have a similarity to that of Birmingham because it was a post-war "New Town" deliberatly rehousing the war damaged housing of its near neighbour Birmingham. However, I have not listened closely to the accents of those residents who were living there before the "New Town" was created.DonBarton 16:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)