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Originally Posted by ukmu

305Batman, we call everything biscuits here that are crunchy. Cat biscuits, are what you might call simply cat food. Small and crunchy... The cheese was for me, Red Leicester, my favourite. (Pronounced Lester) also wort noting Worchester Sauce is pronounced Wooster and rhymes with rooster, I know everyone says( or tries to say) war Chester. I know.... drink it in, take a moment.....Wooster.

In other news at 7 am we are gonna open Bishop as last night was hectic. Think I will go back and get Sandman this morning too. He is in the EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES, AVENGERS CHARACTER ENCYCLPEDIA as a baddie so it is ok. The reason we don't Spidey is we originally had a huge lot of 6" Spidey figures we got at a charity shop. When we got into the mother scale (nice one, just thought of that) anyway the mother scale 3.75" we didn't get any. Long traded those though. If we do Spidey then Anti Venom and the Kingpin kit along with others and it is over $200 quickly. Landing close to 300 for the Spidey verse, then I know me and playset will come adding another hundred. Just an extra $400 for something I am without having for now. Someday I supose though, someday.

As someone who is fond of linguistics and language, I have to clarify your statements. Keep in mind though, that I am not very familiar with colloquial British pronunciation, so this is just based off of my own experience as a native American English speaker who grew up on the West Coast. 'Worcester' (correct spelling does not include an 'h,' though I've heard many people still try to pronounce it like war-chester, as you mentioned), does not actually rhyme with 'rooster.' 'Rooster' has an 'oo' vowel sound as in 'goo' or 'shoe' or 'too.' 'Worcester' has the vowel sound known in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a 'horseshoe u.' It's the same vowel in words like 'good' or 'would.' Hence, since they have different vowel sounds, they are not perfect rhymes. It would be like saying "could" and "cooed" rhyme. Those two words share the exact same consonant sounds and are separated by nothing but the different vowel sounds found in 'Worcester" and 'rooster.' However, someone like Eminem could surely rhyme them. You just have to fake it. All this being said, your pronunciation of some uncommon words like 'Worcester' may be unique in that it is a very British word, but, if I recall correctly, you grew up in the US, so perhaps you pronounce it neither exactly like an American nor exactly like a Brit.

Sorry for the lecture. You may now return to your regularly scheduled action figure discussion.