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Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of Station Names
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:47:45 +1100
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Geoff Lambert wrote:

> 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

This possibly comes from the fact that a lot of places were named by
aboriginals.  Aboriginal language accentuates the second Syllable of a word,
which is in contrast to the European tradition of accentuating the first
syllable.

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

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