Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

["tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>]

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.