Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

[Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au (Eddie Oliver)]

Does anyone remember (or better still, have a copy of) the send-up
of Sydney suburban platform announcements which was produced
during the "strine" craze maybe 20 or 30 years ago?

Standard stopping patterns were rewritten  into what
they sounded like in a typical sloppy announcement, e.g. "all stations"
might have been written as "orstaish".

Also: Is anyone else offended as I am by the current
CityRail recorded platform announcements in
which (despite their general clarity) the word "to" in
"all stations to" is often reduced to a "t" sound run into the
next word,  e.g.

"all stations tornsby" or "all stations tepping"

?

Eddie Oliver