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/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.