> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:31:25 +1100, Michael Walker
> <walker@hotkey.net.au> took time out from wrapping gaffer
> tape around
> gerbils and wrote:
>
> > mispronunciation is Launceston. Having spoken to people
> from Lon-seston
> > on the phone in my previous job, if you pronounce it
> Lorn-seston you get
> > varied reactions from a polite correction (20%) to a
> full angry tirade
> > on 'how you Victorians think you're so right but you
> have no idea' (40%)
>
> Cheese them RIGHT off and pronounce it as LornCHeston.
> ;-)
>
Why not really piss them right off and pronounce it the way
the poms do Lornston????
Just a thought.
Brian