[OM] Re: OT Hoi Polloi, was More Salt in the Wound

[Andrew Fildes]

There's a pub near me called the Paradise Hotel. We used to think  
that it was because it was the only watering hole for a fair distance  
but the the area was once known as Paradise Valley.
Australia has a rich variety of borrowed names, although were all now  
quite good at pronouncing (probably) inappropriate aboriginal names  
like Tangambalanga and Wooloomooloo. The ones that annoy me is the  
insistence in Western Australia of pronouncing the town Albany with a  
short A (as in 'all') and the insistence in Tamania of pronouncing  
Launceston as 'lawn-ces-tun' instead of 'lawnstun'. Pure foolishness.  
A favourite is the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine which is a grim and  
malodourous industrial slum.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



On 25/03/2007, at 6:10 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:

> One of my favorite roads for photography leads to a
> notch in the road called "Oasis."



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