Comments on: Heinous.

By: Garum

Garum — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:29:29 +0000

There’s an old joke that claims a customer at a diner first encountered Worcestershire sauce and asked the cook, “wha’s dis here sauce?”

By: rhickok1109

rhickok1109 — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:37:55 +0000

I find the pronunciation easy to remember, thanks to the Cole Porter song, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, from “Kiss Me Kate.” The song contains these lines:
If she says your behavior is heinous,
Kick her right in the Coriolanus.

By: Joseph DeMartino

Joseph DeMartino — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:02:07 +0000

> “Heinous” does not mean merely “annoying.” Not yet, anyway.

By: johnducmanis

johnducmanis — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:15:01 +0000

It gets Worcester. All those pronunciations have also been heard with the aitch dropped — in fact I vaguely recall some self-pronounced authority saying that it SHOULD be dropped. Unfortunately, that way leads perilously close to a certain impolite orifice and opens the gates to a horde of unsavory puns. (But not to be distressed. Puns are inherently a Good Thing.)