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title: "How to pronounce worcestershire | Murmur"
description: "Check worcestershire pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
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PRONUNCIATION / Everyday language

# How to pronounce worcestershire

Check worcestershire pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

## The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for **worcestershire**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

`W UH1 S T ER0 SH ER0`

**Syllable estimate**

3 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

[Check worcestershire in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worcestershire).

Syllable counts come from vowel tokens; CMUdict does not supply syllable boundaries here. Variant order follows the dictionary and does not rank correctness. This lexicon does not represent every accent or context.

## Use worcestershire in context

Worcestershire may name the English county or appear in the name of the sauce used in cooking. Travel narration and recipe instructions require different context around the same written word. Establish the place or ingredient clearly, and review any neighboring town names or food terms as part of the full passage.

1. The route continues through Worcestershire before turning toward the coast.
2. A little Worcestershire sauce adds depth to the mushroom filling.

### A practice cue

Compare Worcestershire in the place name and the complete sauce phrase. Use available dictionary audio as another reference, then audition your full instruction; do not assume that a model reading of the county will transfer unchanged to every ingredient list.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of worcestershire. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the [CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aria/Papers/MastersThesis.pdf#page=115).

`W`sound in **we**consonant`UH`sound in **hood**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant`T`sound in **tea**consonant`ER`sound in **hurt**vowel`SH`sound in **she**consonant

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## Make an audition worksheet

Select a dictionary variant for your checklist. The two original sentences retain their normal spelling; this worksheet helps you review a recording rather than forcing a speech engine to use phonemes.

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## Dictionary source

The phonemes on this page come from [CMU Pronouncing Dictionary](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/cmudict.dict). The dictionary maintainers acknowledge that errors and omissions can remain; check another source or a speaker when the pronunciation matters.

[CMUdict README](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/README) · [Included dictionary license](https://www.murmurtts.com/downloads/cmudict-license.txt)

Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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