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The Oxford English Dictionary says the ‘cester’ is pronounced ‘ster’, so we are obviously correct in this matter. You don’t have to like it, but we can all agree that the OED are better informed than any on this forum. So that’s that dealt with.
I anticipate several questions, so I shall attempt to preempt them. Firstly, the punctuation predates the USA’s existence, indeed predates it’s discovery, so it is churlish at best for an American tk claim their country knows better when said ‘mistake’ predates their entire country.
As for the regular quibbling over the English language that regularly flakes up on this forum, in no small part due to my own zealousness, I shall simply say that as the country that both developed English, and, to be honest, has the best record of employing it, we take precedence with regard to divergences.
And lastly, and most pertinently, those in glass houses…
Not only is the USA guilty of similar inexplicable pronunciations (Arkansas, anyone?), but they have generally butchered the spelling and pronunciation of the English language in an unforgivable manner.
And besides, I find it difficult to accept a point about language from a man who, in making said point, doesn’t seem to even know how to use basic punctuation.