Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

"Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au> wrote:

>Some of them I know, especially my local ones, please excuse any bad
>phonetics
>Regards,
>-- 
>Chris Stratton
>Wollongong, NSW, Australia
>stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au

>Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au> wrote in article


>> Cowan		COW-an


When I first came to Sydney from Victoria, it struck me that
Sydney-siders pronounced things differently and very much tended to
stress the last syllable of words- to my mind, the classical example
of this was Cowan which, Where I come from would have been pronounced
with no stress on either syllable, almost as though it were Japanese.

To my ear, Sydneysiders pronounce it cowAN, not COW-an, as above and
certainly no cow-un, as in Victoria.  

There are other examples amongst place-names, but they all slip my
memory for now

Geoff Lambert