Re: Pronunciation - some more enquiries

Geoff Lambert (G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 05:28:30 GMT

Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au (Eddie Oliver) wrote:

>Can anyone advise please re pronunciation of

Nowa Nowa as spelt

Bruthen Broothen?

Garema Gareema?

>Also I don;'t recall seeing any response to someone else's
>query re Weeaproinah - that's an important one!

I think it's
Wee a proy eenah
or possibly
Wee a pro eenah

That's the way(S) the TV meteorologists used to pronounce it- and it
was featured so often- I believe it is the wettest place in Victoria.

Geoff Lambert