So how does it pronounce NewCastle?
And how do you lot say it?
New Kas L ????
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So how does it pronounce NewCastle?
And how do you lot say it?
New Kas L ????
The hamlet of Leyburn on the Darling Downs is a wonderful example. It is considered correct to pronounce it either Lee-burn or Lay-burn depending whether the speaker lives on the Warwick or Toowoomba side of the Clifton-Leyburn Road. I always call it Lee-burn as my rellies lived near Allora on the Warwick side.
The lady with the nasal North American voice who lives in my Tom-Tom does produce some entertaining pronunciations. She also likes to plan routes using freeways and major roads, and, I suppose, gets quite frustated with me when I use local knowledge and go the easiest way. I like to get her to plan a route even when I well know where I am going just to see what she comes up with. My wife was quite amused at "take the rotary" for a roundabout.
I just want NavWoman to get the message when I tell her she doesn't know what she's talking about, or even to just shut up when I tell her i know where I'm going and she can come back later. But she keeps going on with her "make a U turn when able" stuff! :D
At least she's got over the "take second exit" bizzo at over-a-bouts, now she says "at the roundabout continue straight"
Diana ;)
"take the rotary, second exit"Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
"you are going the wrong way. Turn around where possible"
I take this second to mean "make an illegal u-turn across eight lanes and the median strip of the freeway".
Last night's effort. Cleveland Street = "cle-eee-vlind". :D
"Eye-pswich" was amusing. Toowoomba was something unintelligible. I wonder what she would make of Wooloongabba or Bungeworgorai?
It would be worth making the trips just the hear them! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm
Obviously not a Sydney resident or she would have said "Clevo". Does she say Red-fern or the local pronunciation "Redfrn".Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
Car I hired from Brisbane on a trip to the Gold Coast to see the Cats show Ablett he wasn't needed had a GPS. Kept telling me to turn left from an over pass onto the road several metres below me. Arriving at the Coast, it wanted me to turn right across a median, when I refused it kept telling me to do a U-turn despite the 'no U-turn' signs at every intersection.
She's resident in Sydney a lot of the time but spends most of her working life travelling. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm
She's also not taken to mentioning suburbs/towns or cities and seems to focus mainly on street names and other street architecture (I think she is a little obsessive that way), although that said it often takes her fancy to mention place names if someone puts them on the large green road signs. :D
Talking about being obsessive, when I switch to "map" and don't tell her where I want to go, she disappears in a huff and won't say anything. I can never keep her happy it seems! :) :o :D ;) :p