What similar English words do you have a problem with?

[JD]

Or, as my Mrs says "Wooster Sauce".

[Dannie Boy]

Worcestershire.... is "shire" or "sheer" or "sher" the correct pronunciation?

Although spelt "shire", I'm fairly certain that most people pronounce it as "sheer" as in a sheer drop.

[caller]

Worcestershire.... is "shire" or "sheer" or "sher" the correct pronunciation?

'Sher' for me!

[hhfarang]

^ I've always heard it and spoken it as "sher" as well, but I worked in a butcher shop once and the head butcher loved the stuff on his steaks and pronounced it Woo-Chester-Shire sauce and he could never understand why I had a good chuckle whenever he said it.

[Gregjam]

Definitely Sher, same as for Liecestershire. Similarly burgh is pronounced like burra as in Edinburgh.

Back on the topic of similar words I think that most errors nowadays are due to spell checkers. This evening a friend posted 'strait' instead of straight.

I think we are all guilty of not proof reading messages and posts but with some it happens so often it is just being lazy.