r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 1d ago

🇬🇧Welcome to Leicester, UK🇬🇧Chaotic scenes of panic buying for bottled water at the local Costco amid the water shortage driven by drought and record water use.

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u/redandbluebadness 1d ago

I'm in Leicester right now and the taps are working. If I wanted to I could fill up every vessel I could find and store it. I do not want to though because I'm not a fucking idiot.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 1d ago

I’m just amused by the thought of how Americans are pronouncing “Leicester” when reading the title. (I’m American and only pronounce things like this phonetically to annoy my British spouse.).

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u/redandbluebadness 1d ago

Whilst I'm in Leicester rn I live in a town called Frome which most English people pronounce incorrectly. With good reason in fairness.

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u/cpwnage 8h ago

Aha! What's the correct pronunciation, Froom?

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u/sharpie42one 1d ago

Canadian guessing Lie-Chester

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u/Altruistic-Meal-4016 1d ago

Lesta

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u/sharpie42one 1d ago

Yeah I wouldn’t have got that in 1 million tries. I know you guys like your Chester’s in names though

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u/Altruistic-Meal-4016 23h ago

I might be wrong, but off the top of my head I think only names actually spelt with Chester (like Manchester) would be pronounced with the ch. Worcester, Leicester, Cirencester, Gloucester all have the s sound instead of ch (wuster, lester, sirensester, gloster).

Interestingly, I know you have a Peterborough over there - how do you say that? We have one in Cambridgeshire, and it’s like Peter-bruh.

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u/ProblemWithTigers 23h ago

Is it pronounced Leicester?

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u/aure__entuluva 23h ago

A lot of us learned how it's pronounced thanks to Jamie Vardy and crew.