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[mag_chan]

Mmm. Must have been a dog in a previous life. Love them corners. Or anywhere where there is no chance of being sneaked up on while I have a good vantage point for viewing the room. Survival instinct I imagine. Alive and rampant in me. It's dangerous to startle me from behind

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[masterofthesky]

*petpet* All small towns seem to have their peculiar ways. The place where I am all the folks are trying their best to not know a thing about their neighbours.

And to-may-to it is! To-mah-to simply sounds weird.

[aikiariyen]

To-mah-to sounds normal if you've grown up saying it ;)

[mag_chan]

That's why I don't like getting ragged on for saying it the way I'm used to. Especially when it, quite frankly, makes more sense.

[rei_ayanami_iv]

How does it make more sense?

To-ma-to. If you said these syllables completely independent of each other, as if they were seperate words, the 'ma' would be pronounced 'mah'.

Say it the way you want, but remember the Queen's English remains superior ;)

[aikiariyen]

Small towns are nice, aren't they?

Which were the places that they teased you about?

[mag_chan]

Hmmmm. There were many. To name a few: Wollongong, Albury, Glen Innes, Lithgow (I hear that one pronounced with an "oh" and "ow" sound, and was teased for both o.O), Nambucca, and others I've probably forgotten.

Overall I think I'm pretty good at speaking foreign words correctly. My husband was always impressed anyway (especially when I had Canberra and Brisbane right the first time). It's the ones that aren't straightforward that get me. And Albury? I shouldn't have a problem, but I always want to say Albany, from NY.

[aikiariyen]

With a Queenslander twist..

Wool-en-gong
Aw-bree
Glen In-iss
Lith-goh
Nambucca is like Sambucca.
Nam-book-ah

Woohoo! No "Bris-bayn" for you?
It's one of the issues I have with Americans... some try to insist that it's Bris-bayn, when the city here is "Bris-bin".

[rei_ayanami_iv]

Got to love those British and Aboriginal place names :)

PROTIP: Always wait for someone to pronounce the town/suburb name first >_> (At least, that's what I do, being the city girl I am - it's always the hick towns/suburbs and inbetween country places that have weird names)