Tasmanians, poor deluded souls, insist on Lawn-cess-tun (yeah, like I
was raised in Lei-ces-ter?) while it should be Lornestun with the
emphasis on the first of the two syllables. They do, however, insist on
Freycinet with a silent terminal 't' because it's French.
Albany is a long 'a' as in 'all' - and as in Albury, Victoria! Derby
should be pronounced 'darby' - these are holdovers from before the
great vowel shift of the 14-15th century when most of the vowels moved
one position in the mouth, except for New Zealanders who moved them two
positions or more.
I am threatened with death on occasion for pointing this out to the
ignorant around me, much to my surprise.
AndrewF
On 02/12/2004, at 1:13 AM, Jon Mitchell wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> And the easier but always mispronounced Launceston, Albany and Derby.
>
> how do you pronouce albany and derby then? i say al as in albert, ba,
> knee, and der (like burr) bee. and the first one is lawns (the grassy
> stuff) ton (like i weigh 2 tons)?
> </snip>
>
> Unless you come from near Launceston, where it is commonly pronounced
> something like "Laaarnstun" (with heavy West-Country lilt !)
>
> ;-)
>
> Jon
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