Its pronounced ‘Wuster’ at least that’s how we Bruts call it, since it is a county name and all.
It’s new as in it wasn’t used when I was in kindergarten, 55 years ago. 
Everyone says it incorrectly. There is literally no correct way to say it.
Reminds me of high school youth group, when we told some younger kids that there was indeed a word that rhymes with orange…
Kids: “Huh?”
Pastor spells out “Psnrge!”
Chucko: “Always spelled with the exclamation point.”
Laurie B.: “And there are twelve ways to pronounce it…”
Kubbie: “…but all of them are wrong.”
…
It has no valid pronunciation, like Mxyzptlk.
Some DC writer (Bates? Byrne? Bendis?) claimed it’s pronounced Mixes-PIT’-lick. I prefer to just look at the name and think “Too hard, not even trying” and slide right past it on the printed page.
That’s how it’s pronounced in the Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League/Justice League: Unlimited, and Justice League: Action animated series.
I think that was pretty clearly the original creative intent. He’s a fifth dimensional imp. His name is supposed to be unpronounceable with our merely three dimensional tongues.
You might be right. My mother had this habit, and I picked it up in a compartmentalized way. I worked at Kroger, and if anyone asked, I said “I work at Kroger.” But if we were going to go buy stuff, I’d say “Let’s go to Kroger’s.”
I can’t defend it in any way, but that’s what I would do at the time.
And now, I’ve typed/thought the word “Kroger” enough that it’s kind of lost all meaning. That didn’t take long, so I’m just going to go watch TV now.
You need to go full psycho and start calling everyone Kroger. Answer the phone? “Hey, Kroger. What up?” Dog on your leg? “Down, Kroger. Bad dog.” Soon it can bleed over onto inanimate objects… “Kroger, I’m going to need this bread toasted golden brown. Before I press the handle down, I need to know you can handle this, Kroger.”
Gotta go, Kroger. Ah needs me a good Krogerin’… if you wink my nudge nudge…
Damn, they verbed themselves, didn’t they? Watch it, I’ll Kroger you into next week!
It’s more important to be able to pronounce it backward.
Oh, no, you’re not fooling me again.
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(I mean, ninety days in a dimension with no broadband, no Dope? SOMEone here would start to wonder where I was…)
Just popped into my head 2+ months too late:
My mother, and seemingly everybody on her side of the family, said when referring going to Carvel to get ice cream, would never say they’re going to Carvel to get ice cream or whatever, it was “We’re going to get some Carvels”. It was like fingernails on a blackboard to me. I have no idea why.
That does it! I just canceled my three-year Buddhist retreat. I’ll tell them that I already found the meaning to life.
You.Are.Going.To.Die.
Excellent, for then the nightmares will end (or maybe then they won’t pause intermittently any more!).
After one is Krogered one is surely to one day Kroger, after all.
Nah, you ain’t sucking me in again. shudder
You are incredibly wise, but I watched both of them several times, until I collapsed into mirthful tears. Jeebus, how did they come up with such maniacally stupid marketing?
At least Fry’s is over and done with (I believe Kroger still owned them). I’m going to bed now. Sleep tight.
If the terms have the same meaning, I’d prefer the shorter one. But while a dog is a canine, a canine isn’t necessarily a dog. A canine could be a coyote, or a tooth.
I know if I watched the second one it’d haunt my dreams.
Words to live by.
I was thinking cost was the factor since currently the spot price for tin is roughly ten times that for aluminum. No idea about the cost seventy years ago.
Speaking of tin, I asked on the board a couple years ago if anybody had played with bulk tin – say a one-cm cube – and how similar it would be to a cube of aluminum. All I got was crickets. 