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Australian Place Names - Many Tongue Twisters
By Jason Stevens
Australia, many of the place names within the county since White Settlement with the arrival of the First Fleet have founded many names that are representative of other names found elsewhere. Amongst these, many are named after civilian, military and royalty of the United Kingdom as well as places already existing in the UK at the time. For example, 'The Queens Land", became the north-eastern state of Queensland as well as the south eastern state of Victoria was named after the reigning Monarch, Queen Victoria. New South Wales reminded many settlers of the surrounding area akin to being in the "south of Wales". Many other place names are founded and named after either British names or settlers and colonials of the time adopting the indigenous Aboriginal names of the locality. It is these indigenous Aboriginal names of many places that tourists find much difficulty with pronunciation without the assistance from locals or hearing it from Australians abroad. Here are a few of the mighty place name tongue twisters -
Angurugu, Aurukun, Baryulgil, Binningup, Boroondara, Coolangatta, Coonabarabran, Cootamundra, Eumundi, Gnowangerup, Grong Grong, Indooroopilly, Jeebropilly, Manangatang, Maroochydore, Maribyrnong, Mooloolaba, Murwillumbah, Nhulunbuy, Parramatta, Toowoomba, Tuggeranong, Wollongong, Woolloomoloo, Woolloongabba, Wulkuraka, Yarramalong, Yarrawonga. Did you try a few? Is your tongue a little sore? Almost all of these place names listed, usually do not sound the same as they do phonetically, but it helps to start that way until you find that pronunciation of these place names is rather quick. Let's try a couple that with some assistance you can sound out; Indooroopilly - IN-DOOR-RO-PILLY - sounds like: Indra-pilly
Maribyrnong - MARRI-BYR-NONG - sounds like: Mara-beenon
Manangatang - MA-NAN-GA-TANG - sounds like: Manang-gatang
Maroochydore - MA-ROOCH-Y-DORE - sounds like: Ma-rooch-e-door |
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Wow, and I thought Canadian place names were challenging. We have names like Saskatchewan and Wasagaming and Kitimat, but that pales in comparison. Very creative intel, by the way.
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Hi There June, It is almost the exact same as for the indigenous native tribes of Canada. I am sure if one delved deeper, there would be some spectacular and exotic sounding names.
Oh man.... I would have a hard time traveling there. But the thing is, although the names are tongue twisters, there is a certain romanticism to them. Exotic. I don't know what they mean - maybe with some of them it's best I don't...
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Ha ha, Hi there James, There is still much debate about the uses of Australian Indigenous language from pre-European settlement. It is not known if these 'names' represent an actual place, an event that had taken place or the name of a person or persons. But what is known is that some of these words were used specifically within tribal limits and these words were usually not known and/or not spoken about outside the tribe. Yet we still don;t know if these I have listed or tribal or common to most Australian Aboriginals.
If I said them right, they were kind of fun to say. Interesting article.
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Very interesting for those especially not living in Australia. Most of these names we grow up with pronouncing, but very difficult for foreigners when they visit here.
What an interesting subject to write about. Now we will all be thinking of unusual sounding place names. In my case, it would be American Indian names.
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I have come across some very difficult to pronounce words and named places with American Indian cultural langauge
Great read, with informational tongue twisters, Jason. Makes me realize that our New England American Indian names are not so difficult.
Thanks for sharing.
Best wishes.
Frederick
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My pleasure Frederick, I have met some indigenous Australians, whose names are 3 or 4 letters long, or 3 alphabets long :)
those are absolutly tongue twisters if I have ever heard them! I remember beingin New Zealand and having friends who live down there make fun of me nonstop as I tried to pronounce all of their tongue twisting city names as well.
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Same thing with the Maori tribes of New Zealand, some are quite difficult to pronounce unless heard first, and some sound just like one is saying something not quite nice.
Watch it, I'm from the Wollongong area, y'know!
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