A local would pronounce it Wooster; as an East Anglian I'd pronounce it Woorster. In between now and when the spelling was 'fixed', roughly when printing began, the middle vowel was lost. A Roman may have called the town Vertis; in Anglo-Saxon times Weorgoranceaster...
English spelling is full of such shifts.
I wonder how Gloranthan names have changed since the Dawn? For that matter, is Pavis really pronounced the way Pavis would have spoken his name?
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