Why is it pronounced Gloster?
Look at these sample words, which are also pronounced in the say way.
1. Thought
2. Brought
By the way, Gloucester Ma. is beautiful. Remember the movie "Perfect Storm", it was filmed in Gloucester.
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Elision for ease of pronunciation.
-cester refers to a Roman fort or castle, a suffix on the end of a town or region. Shortening it to "ster" (in most dialects) makes speech flow better, it happens in every language. Often the spellings changed over time to reflect this, but not always. Thus Gloucester (Glow cester) becomes Glouster, Leicester (Leir's cester) becomes Lester and so on.
from the old days when people had European accents-evolved over time.
just like Worcester is Woostah, and Shire is pronounced sher.
i have always pronounced it like "glooshter"
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