Vigornia
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Wiltshire, UK
Having grown up in Worcester UK I love the American fascination with the word Worcestershire. Plenty of brits don’t know how to pronounce it either, to be fair. WORCE =“wus” with the vowel sound similar to the “oo” in book STER = “stuh” SHIRE = “sher” Emphasis on the WUS so WUS-stuh-sher Originally the Roman settlement was called Vertis, meaning “little turn on the river”. Once the Romans left, it went through a few permutations - Vigornia, Weogornaceaster (even I won’t attempt to pronounce that one), Wirecester and finally Worcester.
@Puzzled Brit I’ve never heard of it either. I asked my Scottish husband and he said he had also never heard of it, but after a few minutes he said there's something about it in “the jeely piece song” where it says “if your bread is plain or pan”.
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