# How to pronounce Worcestershire sauce? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904 "2012-10-06T15:20:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/81 "2012-10-12T14:36:49Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Does yours also have ingredients like soy sauce? It’s possible US Heinz-branded Worcestershire is different. I’ll take a look when I can. I think I will also make a recce to some food stores to see if I can find both variants. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/82 "2012-10-12T14:59:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Does yours also have ingredients like soy sauce? It’s possible US Heinz-branded Worcestershire is different. Did they learn nothing from New Coke! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/83 "2012-10-12T15:29:09Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Did they learn nothing from New Coke! Well, this is what I’m wondering. Lea & Perrins is currently a Heinz brand. In the US, I can get both Lea & Perrins as well as Heinz Worcestershire sauce. They are two different types of Worcestershire with a different ingredient list. Now, I’m wondering if where Floater’s at it’s the same thing, or: 1) L&P is simply rebranded as Heinz, and has the same ingredients as L&P as sold in the US; 2) Heinz is the same as in the US, and L&P simply isn’t sold there; 3) Heinz Worcestershire is yet another recipe in Floater-land. (Sweden, IIRC.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/84 "2012-10-13T00:06:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Now I want a Bloody Mary. Well, _I_ didn’t until you mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/85 "2012-10-13T03:29:14Z")
My British co-worker (family from Trinidad, though) called it something like “Whuh-shuh” (with rising indignation over our persistent refusal to say it “right.” ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/86 "2012-10-22T16:23:28Z")
Sorry for the delay (I have been too busy to check in). I have made a very small field study and have made some observations and come to a couple of conclusions. The sauce marketed under the Lea & Perrins brand is made in England whilst the one marketed as Heinz comes from the Netherlands. As **pulykamell** stated the Heinz sauce contains soy, which the Lea & Perrins doesn’t. The label states, though, that it’s made from the original recipe. As I don’t think there is a “ **the** original recipe” it must refer to the one that Heinz came up with when they first started making and marketing it. I didn’t see any Heinz bottles in the stores I checked, only Lea & Perrins plus a brand I didn’t recognise. The Heinz sauce at my eatery is most probably purchased from a restaurant wholesaler or something and if they carry both brands the Heinz probably costs less as the landlord is the role model of a cheapskate. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/87 "2012-10-22T22:05:48Z")
I’ve just checked my bottle – which is almost empty and may be two or three years old (it says “Best Before End – see cap” but any date has long since rubbed off). There is no mention of Heinz even in the small print. It says “Made in Worcester. Lea & Perrins Limited, 3 Midland Road, Worcester WR5 1DT. Since 1837” on the back, and the royal warrant on the front says “By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen. Purveyors of Worcestershire Sauce Lea & Perrins Ltd, Worcester”. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904/88 "2012-10-22T23:46:13Z")
I have no cite for this, because I can’t remember where I heard it, but I thought that British place names with **ce** in them, drop the sound of “ce” as well as the letter that came before it. Thus: Leicester -\> Lester Worcestershire -\> Woostershire Gloucester -\> Gloster [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pronounce-worcestershire-sauce/636904.md?page=4)