Gnaraloo
Submitted: Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:26
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V8Diesel
When did Gnaraloo Station become Gnarloo? It's starting to peeve me.
It seems 95% of folks seem to call it 'nar-loo' instead of 'nurra-loo' these days.
Look - I new Bob & Lois Michael who owned the place, I stayed there, even did a bit of work around the place in the 80's and they - nor anyone else - never ever pronounced it 'nar-loo'. Sometime in the last decade it seems to have changed pronounciation. People who should know better (ie: 'locals') pronounce it like eastern states surfers now.
It's like out of towners pronouncing
Meekatharra as 'Meeka-tharrrrarah' or
Albany being pronounced 'Orllbany' or
Derby being pronounced 'Darby'. It's just not cricket.
Let's go to 'Side-ih-knee' or 'Mell-bawwwnn' or Addelle-ay-eye-dee' or 'Briss-bayne' or even 'Carrr-sell-mayne'.
Might go and take my SUV for a drive up the motorway to
Narloo. I'd best make sure my Jandals are in the trunk next to the chully bin in case get a flat tire and need to hitch a ride on an eighteen wheeler lorry.
Feeling grumpy - thought I'd blow off a bit of steam.
Reply By: Skippype - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:33
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:33
Not really a morning person are yah ;-)
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Reply By: Member - Lionel A (WA) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:30
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:30
HEHEHE........Your turn to change the nappys.
The pomgolian influence.
Chully bin.....whats rong wit dat.
Cheers.....Lionel.
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Follow Up By: Thermoguard Instruments - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:20
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:20
I thought it was "chully bun" ???
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Follow Up By: Member - Tour Boy (Bororen) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:14
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:14
You mean a chully bun full o puss
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Reply By: Willem - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:06
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:06
V8
Over the last 100 or so years many imported cultures and languages have influenced the pronounciation of traditonal 'Australian' words and this, over time, has crept in to the education system, which in turn has manifested itself in society.
I was highly amused when I drove through a place in NSW with the name of Goonoo Goonoo. I pronouced it Goo Noo Goo Noo but when I asked a local he said Gunna Ganoo!.....LOL. There are many other iunstances like this example.
I often make mistakes like that as my o'seas education is imprinted in my brain :-)
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - MUZBRY-(MURRAY)(Vic) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:20
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:20
Gday
Its always been Gunna Ganoo as i lived in that area for 20 yrs.
You don't know how some of these
places are pronounced until you speak to a local.A friend of
mine has a good one that amuses me. She says "Saint Kilders" but then what can you expect from people that come from over the trench.
Murray
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Follow Up By: Member - Mike DID - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:04
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:04
. . . or
Cockburn near the NSW/
SA Border.
To save embarrassment . . . .it's pronounced "Coburn".
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Follow Up By: Member - Wim (Qld) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:24
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:24
Mike.
Just to add to the confusion, That means Rockingham is pronounced "Roingham"
Regards
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Reply By: Member - Footloose - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:51
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:51
Times do change things, don't they ?
As a lad, I ventured into a Qld outback town to work.
Ordering a sandwich, I was asked "one round or two"? Now much as I wanted to eat, I wasn't prepared to fight for my food !!
These days one makes a pot of tea, not a pot of beer.
And I'm sorry. Much to my shame, I still cannot pronounce many aboriginal place names. Until a few years ago I still referred to a certain place as Ayer's Rock.
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Follow Up By: Maîneÿ (wa) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:19
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:19
yeah an a 'plant' ova here waz called a 'black boy' now it's a 'grass tree'
bl**dy tall bit ov grass me thinks
main e . . .
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Reply By: Member - Mal and Di (SA) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:51
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:51
What about
Pygery as "piggery" and Yaninee as "Ya-ninny" and it anybody's guess on Nunjikompita.
M.
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Reply By: Member - Mfewster(SA) - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:27
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:27
Relax. Language, spelling etc keep changing and always have. That's why English is a living language as opposed to dead languages, which are the only ones that don't change. The reason that the Oxford dictionary is the last word on the English language is that (if you read the small print in its full title) it is a dictionary uniquely built on historical principles. That means that if you look at the full, or shorter versions of the Oxford, it lists the changes in words over the years so you can check the shifts in meaning and pronunciation at different times and
places in the history of the word.
So, instead of getting angry, give yourself a pat on the back for being a native speaker of the most alive (and therefore constantly changing) of the world's languages.
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Follow Up By: Flywest - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:59
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:59
Gonna "Meeka - Tarra" tanks mate! ;o)
Dreamtime story......long long time ago - I been walkin down de ol grabbil road - till I come dis sacred place called hungry jacks! ;o)
Cheers!
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Reply By: Rod W - Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:09
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:09
Here endith the lesson
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:55
Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:55
Hi V8 - its interesting to know that. I have only lived in WA for 9 years now and had previously never heard of Gnaraloo until I travelled there in 1999 but it was told to me then as "Gnar-loo" so that's what I called it. Funny enough, I had never noticed the spelling until yesterday's post..... when I went to type a link to the
Places section and couldn't work out what I was doing wrong with the link then I discovered I was spelling it as I was saying it (incorretly I then learned). So I enjoyed your little lesson today! Thanks for setting me straight!
Michelle (MM)
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Reply By: V8Diesel - Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 07:39
Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 07:39
Ohh I was just a having a bit of whinge after a sleepless night, that's all.
I think the consensus of opinion is to pronounce it as 'Nar-loo' these days and so be it. It's an evolving language.
It'll always be 'nurra-loo' to me, and 'Shenton
Park Lake' will always be just that too.......not 'Lake Jualbup' or whatever it was redesignated a few years ago.
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