Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

"tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au> wrote:


>Eddie Oliver wrote in message <123144954$Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au>...
>>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".

>I don't think it was strine but taking the piss with "New Australians"
>who almost exclusively did the station annoucements, much to the
>annoyance of passengers.

Oh no it wasn't.  You should read the book, also the hilarious
follow-up, "Nose Tone Unturned" for the exclusively Strine origin of
this dialect.

Geoff Lambert