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Re: Pronunciation of Station Names



In our last episode <01bd1e90$70b25060$LocalHost@brownbill> on 11 Jan 1998
13:03:37 GMT, Chris Brownbill told aus.rail:

>Ebbw Vale          Ebber-vale

More like "eb-boo vale"

>Pinkenba

"pink-en-bar"

>Morayfield

"mor-ay-field"

>Burpengary

"burp-un-gary"

>Yaraka

"yer-acka"

>Wulkuraka

"wull-kur-acka"

>Bethania

"beth-ania" ("ania" as in "mania" without the "m")

>Murarrie

"mura-ree"

Coorparoo -- widely mispronounced as "coo-pa-roo" where it's
"core-pah-roo".

A classic is Helensvale... onboard the SMUs (the pre-recorded stuff, the
real guy is in Perth), the announcement is made ecstatically as "The next
station is Helen's Vale!".  He pronounces most other stations extremely
well as if he's dotted every i and crossed every t.

I'm not even going to start about the pre-recorded announcements on the
IMUs!!!

When it comes to station platform announcements, CityRail wins hands down
for sensibility and clarity (excluding special cut-and-paste jobs)!

One should never finish a sentence with an inflection...

:-)