Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

["Chris Brownbill" <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

Terry Burton <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<69h7rg$o7g$4@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...

> If you ever travel the Stuart Highway North of Alice
> Springs and stop at a little roadhouse near the Devil's
> Marbles called WAUCHOPE,  please do not call it
> WAR-hope, or some comments on your parentage and or
> your possible origins from NSW may be heard.

Bloody hell, they go for the jugular with the insults up there in the
Territory dont they?  My parentage may have been questioned from time to
time, but I've never done anything to justify being accused of being from
NSW.