Jill Jones wrote:
>Well, Melbourne is Melb'n or Melben not Mel-bourne, it's Canbra or Canbrer
>for Canberra and Brisb'n or Brisban for Bris-bane - the stress is on the
>first syllable rather than falling equally. And, unfortunately Ostralia is
>becoming Ostraya. And there's heaps more. For instance, a small town with
>the Aboriginal monicker of Goonoo Goonoo is pronounced Gunna G'noo.
>
>But, as with Candice, that 'aboot' says Canadian to me if nothing else does.
>And some Austrayans get rather tragic kicks by asking New Zealanders to say
>the next number after five - it's somewhere between 'sex' and 'sux'. No
>wonder they think we're a bit thuck, eh. But how does the rest of the world
>tell the diff? I was in a shop in Paris once and the woman at the counter
>asked if I was from New Zealand and I said no. She said she only asked
>because they get a bit snippy when they're mistaken for Australians. Fair
>cop, I guess.
And don't you live in Sinney, Jill?
Candice
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