Re: Oh no! More pronounciation questions

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

Geoff Lambert wrote in message <6eaehp$jdj$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au>...
>Last night (12 Mar) at Central, I heard the dreadfully-proper recorded
>station announcer man give a list of stations for a railcar connecting
>at Campbelltown with a suburban service off the City Circle.
>
>Amongst the names were:
>
>Station spelling His pronounciation
>---------------------                      --------------------------
>
>Braemar Br'mar or, if you like, Bruh-mar
>Talong T'long  "   "   "   "  "    Tuh-long
>
>Are these right?
>
>Together with about 20 other people, I part own a property at
>Talong..... all of the 20 owners pronounce it Tay-long... are we all
>wet behind the ears?
>
>Geoff Lambert


FreightCorp Drivers say bray-MAR and tal-ONG. Not to say that this is
correct though.