Chaz, you must not be from around heeya...Worcester, MA is pronounced as "
Wis-ta." Always was, always shall be
Bill-rick-a...correct!
Stanton, VA..."
Stan Ton," at least that's what the people that made two of my guitars call it.
Forked River, NJ...don't know about the town, but the fiddle-tune is "Fork-ed Deer"
I cannot find Calais, VT in my Rand/McNally, but I have been through Calais, ME, a major border crossing from
New Brunswick, Canada into the US...small town, pronounced "
Cal-lis" by the locals as I remember.
Leicester (MA at least) is "
Less-ster" Some years ago, we get a call from the Leicester Fire Dept for a building fire
that they cannot find...we went to the address and the second floor of the multi-family was
ripping! The original
caller must have dialed "0" (this was before "911") and the telephone operator got it wrong. No one hurt, TTL
So to follow that
@JerryR , Leominster, MA is "Lemon-ster" here, not your "
Lem-ster."
No idea what "Woman Hill" Mass would be...???
Athol, MA, once the proud home of the machine-tool-measuring company Starrett, always knew as "
Ath-Hol...never heard any
off color comments on it, was always familiar with the town as my father was a tool-and-die maker. Sadly, with the demise of Starrett,
its a sad tiny mill-town, which in some recent times had the distinction of being #1 in single-mother births, and a lot of drug abuse.
And back to the lovely, brown "Worcestershire Sauce"...always called "
Wista-shear Sauce" in my home, and there was always a cork-topped
bottle in the cupboard...never saw more that a couple drops or maybe a teaspoon used...in my home today we have a small bottle of Hannaford's copy and not the original Lea & Perrin's stuff.
Now, can we get back to important guitar stuff?