We’re always intrigued with place name pronunciation and the plethora of towns whose names we’ve mispronounced over the years. When camped at Whorouly we constantly had to keep repeating the name of the town just to get it right…woh-row-lee, who-row-lee.
Here’s a list of a few that we Melburnians get wrong:
Town Name Pronounced as Melbourne’s version
Newcastle Newcassel. Newcarsel
Bulahdelah Bulladeela Bewladeela
Forster Foster Forster
Launceston Lonceston Lawnceston
Kilkivan killkeevn What? Oh the place with the good butcher
Toowoomba t’woombu Too woomba
Canowindra Canoundra Canna windra
Quirindi Corindi Kwirindee
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Splendid photograph
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Thanks Derrick, one of those evenings when the light played tricks and made Launceston look more Scandinavian than Tasmanian.
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Several of those I’d pronounce the Melbournian way and I’m not from there. One of our, “Ooops moments” was speaking to a Tasmanian about Strahan (Str-arn) only to discover the locals call it “Strawn”.
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Strarn and Strawn are what many of the rest of us in the non-Australian world refer to as the language spoken on that continent!
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Ha ha point taken.
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I’ll bet they were thinking “Bloody mainlanders!”
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More likely, “Bloody Tourists ……… the only good thing about them is the money they bring.”
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Great photo and so true about the names. Funny cos my next column is on a similar subject. 🙂
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Great minds…
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I thought it was just us that couldnt pronounce your place names but you have trouble yourselves! Brilliant. Funny post, like it.
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