How do you say Canberra

mellie · Post by **mellie** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:31 pm

It's pronounced Sid'n'i...with tight syllables.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sydney

mellie · Post by **mellie** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:53 pm

I say it the first way he says it...

Os-tray-li'en (again, tight syllables)

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=australian

This opposed to Ush-tray-ian, (Melbourne translation)

Or Ustraaaaayuuun (South Australian aka Gillard)

mellie · Post by **mellie** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:57 pm

you say tumaters I say tom-art-oes
Isn't there a song about that?

mellie · Post by **mellie** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:02 am

The moral to the story is, despite us all being Australian, we have a number of different dialects.

Interesting site.

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/australiaoceani ... tralia.htm

Bart · Post by **Bart** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:13 am

mellie wrote:It's pronounced Sid'n'i...with tight syllables.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sydney

No
The late IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch taught us all that it is prononced Sidee

Tight syllables???
Since when has anything been tight in Sidinee!

boxy · Post by **boxy** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:37 pm

Can-brah

skippy · Post by **skippy** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:36 pm

Yep I say can brah, like Peter Harvey, CAN BRAHHHHHHHHHHH.
I hate the way Mexicans( those from the southern states like SA, VIC ) say castle, its fucking CARS ILL NOT cas il.

Bart · Post by **Bart** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:05 pm

I hate the way cockroaches and canetoads say castle, it's CARSEL not CASILL

skippy · Post by **skippy** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:09 pm

Bart wrote:I hate the way cockroaches and canetoads say castle, it's CARSEL not CASILL

Yea thats what I said.

Neferti · Post by **Neferti** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:44 pm

You should have asked me. I was born in Melbourne, lived in Sydney for years and now live in Canberra .......

It is Can-brah. Definitely not Can-ber-rah. Oh, and I say CaR-sil (Castle), raRscal (rascal), daRnce (dance), praRnce(prance) sault (sawlt ?) for salt, dawg for dog. I was always picked up for saying Mozman instead of MosS-man (Mosman) when I lived in Sydney. I've been picked out many times for being a "Mexican". Oh, and what you guys in Sydney call Spinach is actually Silverbeet ..... well it used to be.

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