pronouncing bathurst - Page 2

**Peuty** · 16-04-2011, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by JC

How about MONARO? If it's the car, it's pronounced mon-air-o, but if it's the highway, it's mon-are-o.

I've never heard anyone call the car a mon air o?

Ryan · 16-04-2011, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by JC

How about MONARO? If it's the car, it's pronounced mon-air-o, but if it's the highway, it's mon-are-o.

Mon-are-o. How about Camaro? I say Cam-air-o.

We can keep this going all night.

Riksta · 16-04-2011, 11:22 PM

I say potato...

Spanrz · 16-04-2011, 11:42 PM

Ohhhhhh what a gem of a thread..... The dialects run free.

I have these "debates" with my wife, on how to say words. Purely because I have an Aussie accent and she, the Upstate NY accent.

For the record, I pronounce it "Bathust" with the "thust" said quickly.
And I've just bought my campsites for the great race too. So there... :P

fmc351 · 17-04-2011, 01:12 AM

Ba-(as in back)thirst

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Originally Posted by Road_Warrior

I've never heard people say the car "Mon-air-ro" just Mon-are-o but I have heard political commentators referring to the seat of Eden-Monaro as Mon-air-ro

I was thinking the same thing. I think he just got it backwards when he typed it.

Jim Goose · 17-04-2011, 12:34 PM

Look at how they pronouse AUSTAR!

Going by the adds on TV..... AUS STAR..... when it should read AUST AR ?

We have a small town up the ranges near Mareeba... called Ravenshoe.
Pronounced " Ravens...hoe "
Yet people who arent locals often call it... Ravens shoe!
Always brings up a laugh.

shedcoupe · 17-04-2011, 12:58 PM

Isn't it pronounced "there's a heap of brake and clutch asbestos dust, and petrol lead, still in the catchment ?"

Batman105E · 17-04-2011, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveJH

What 99AUXR & Big Cav said.

Bath-hurst.

Or Ba-thurst

My surname is Bathurst, I have heard any number of different ways to pronounce it from Barth-hurst to Bth-ust.

However the way our family pronounce our name is as described below...

Ba-thurst.

The funny thing is when you tell someone your name and they proceed to spell it with two Hs, or put it down as the town you are from.

prydey · 17-04-2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fmc351

Ba-(as in back)thirst

^^^^this. never heard it pronounced any other way to be honest. this is how they do it on the telecast.

NC1183 · 17-04-2011, 03:56 PM

What about Goondiwindi.......

prydey · 17-04-2011, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by NC1183

What about Goondiwindi.......

goon = gun for me.

what about coulthard, as in david coulthard. i think the 'h' is silent myself, but have heard it said with a 'th' sound.

gotta love the english language.

Franco Cozzo · 17-04-2011, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Look at how they pronouse AUSTAR!

Going by the adds on TV..... AUS STAR..... when it should read AUST AR ?

The only adds I see on AUSTAR are trying to sell me life insurance or something like that.

SEZ213 · 17-04-2011, 04:09 PM

Warracknabeal
Warrnambool
Hopetoun
Coorparoo
Ebbw vale
Castlemaine
Wodonga
Capalaba
Warwick
Dalby
Biloela

Go forth and conquer!

fmc351 · 17-04-2011, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Sezzy

Ebbw vale

Go forth and conquer!

Vale isnt hard to work out.

That one has always had me wondering why the w? Its pronounced Ebb Vale as far as Im aware. Anything else is like saying Tar-jey for Target.

NC1183 · 17-04-2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fmc351

Vale isnt hard to work out.

That one has always had me wondering why the w? Its pronounced Ebb Vale as far as Im aware. Anything else is like saying Tar-jey for Target.

Is just people trying to make Target clothes sound more "upper class"

SEZ213 · 17-04-2011, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by fmc351

Vale isnt hard to work out.

That one has always had me wondering why the w? Its pronounced Ebb Vale as far as Im aware. Anything else is like saying Tar-jey for Target.

Hahaha! It's Ebber vale apparently - according to the yokels anyway.

I just thought they were 'frenchersising' the world using tar-jey...

Riksta · 17-04-2011, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by NC1183

Is just people trying to make Target clothes sound more "upper class"

Like good old Mrs Bucket? :P

Spanrz · 18-04-2011, 10:39 PM

Bit like the old song "Don't call Wagga Wagga - Wagga"........LOL!

GS608 · 18-04-2011, 10:48 PM

ill have a go at some..

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Originally Posted by Sezzy

Warracknabeal
Warrnambool - warn na bool?
Hopetoun
Coorparoo
Ebbw vale
Castlemaine
Wodonga - wa donga?
Capalaba - ca pal a ba
Warwick - war ick
Dalby
Biloela

Go forth and conquer!

Coyote mk3 · 18-04-2011, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Riksta

Like good old Mrs Bucket? :P

"its pronounced bouquet"

Gotta love that show (and im 18)

SEZ213 · 18-04-2011, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by 5.0

ill have a go at some..

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Originally Posted by Sezzy

Warracknabeal - Wa-rick-na-beel
Warrnambool - yep
Hopetoun - Hope-tn
Coorparoo - Coo-pa-roo
Ebbw vale - Ebber vale
Castlemaine - Ca-stlemaine
Wodonga -yep
Capalaba - yep
Warwick - depends on where you come from - Wa-rick war-rick
Dalby - Dolby (like surround sound)
Biloela - Bil-o-eela

Go forth and conquer!

There's a town up near Maryborough called Bauple...the locals got stuck into my old man something chronic, it's not Boreple, it's Bopple...!

Eleanor · 19-04-2011, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Charliewool

Isn't it Baf est?

Only if you're from Penriff

And yes...Toowoomba is Ta-woomba or T-Bar for short!

KYSBF · 19-04-2011, 11:51 AM

Canowindra anyone?

**GasoLane** · 19-04-2011, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Spanrz

I have these "debates" with my wife, on how to say words. Purely because I have an Aussie accent and she, the Upstate NY accent.

Please inform your wife that seeing as she's a ~~Seppo~~ American she has no say in the matter as they don't speak English there. (I mean some of them pronounce Jaguar. Jag-wire!!)

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Originally Posted by KYSBF

Canowindra anyone?

Easy. Can-aown-dra

geckoGT · 22-04-2011, 09:58 AM

Some near my home town.

Pithara
Damboring
Ballidu

JG66ME · 22-04-2011, 11:47 AM

Creswick in Victoria. I think the W should be silent. In London UK, Chiswick is pronounced "Chisick"

Melbourne was named after a British Prime Minister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...ount_Melbourne

They pronounce it Mel Born. We say Mel Burn.

There is a place in the uk called Loughborough.
It is pronounced Luff boro. An Australian tourist was heard calling it "Luga boro".

JG66ME · 22-04-2011, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Spanrz

Bit like the old song "Don't call Wagga Wagga - Wagga"........LOL!

Well, you wouldn't call Gin Gin Gin would you now?

**GasoLane** · 22-04-2011, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JG66ME

They pronounce it Mel Born. We say Mel Burn.

When I lived there it was always Melb'n

shedcoupe · 22-04-2011, 09:44 PM

Mullalyup is in WA. The sign is frequently altered.

castellan · 23-04-2011, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Sezzy

Hahaha! It's Ebber vale apparently - according to the yokels anyway.

I just thought they were 'frenchersising' the world using tar-jey...

Hear! it's called Ebbw vale. Ebb-oo vale the W is pronounced oo as it's a welsh name.
Ebb-oo so how do you get ER out of an W or Ebby with a Y out of a W.

Ba-thurst is because of the A is a what?
And the TH is pronounced as ?
Some wogs pronounce the TH as 'ta' = Ba-taurst my mum does