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Re: Pronunciation of Station Names



Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au (Eddie Oliver) wrote:

>Michael Walker <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

>>Everybody I have spoken to call it Lay-lor (VIC). My family on my
>>mother's side grew up in Reservoir (REZ-er-vor although some call it
>>REZ-er-vwa) and in my old job, I have spoken to many people on the phone
>>who live there who pronounced it the same way.

>I agree (from meagre knowledge) that the station and suburb are commonly
>lay-lor.   However the federal electorate is definitely pronounced law-ler, and
>I suspect that this is historically correct.

>Both were presumably named after the person of that name prominent
>in Australian history (I won't show my ignorance by attempting to describe
>the history.)

I know a bloke who claims to be a direct descendant of Lalor and he
swears the name is pronounced laylor.

Geoff Lambert