How to pronounce Northern Tasmanian places names | August 2023 | The Examiner - video Dailymotion

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The Examiner's Hamish Geale and Josh Partridge walk you through the pronunciation of some of Tassie's trickiest place names.

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00:00 Northern Tasmania, there are some cracking place names and some of them can be a bit

00:11 tricky to pronounce.

00:12 I'm here today with my great friend Josh Fispardo.

00:16 Have you ever heard someone absolutely butcher a place name from Northern Tasmania?

00:22 Yeah, um, Travellum is the worst one.

00:26 I've heard it's hard to get there.

00:30 Not necessarily Northern Tasmania, but I heard a Sorrel the other day, which is really disappointing.

00:36 It shows you're not from Tasmania if you're pronouncing Sorrel as Sorrel.

00:41 It's a Sorrel sake, yeah.

00:43 But yeah, what are some of the ones that you were thinking of, Gila?

00:47 Well we've put together today the top five, I guess hardest to pronounce place names.

00:56 And coming in at number five, we haven't got a lot of like silent letters in I guess like

01:01 Northern Tasmania, but the one we do have is up near Rose Fiers, it is Grindelwald.

01:07 There's an L there, but you do not say the L. It's a no.

01:11 It's not Grindelwald or whatever you're going to go with.

01:15 Grindelwald.

01:16 You want to take us off with number four?

01:20 Number four, Rochelie.

01:22 No, it does not rhyme with broccoli.

01:26 It is not Rock-a-lee, it is Rochelie.

01:28 I can't remember where I'd heard Rochelie before, but it was just one that really rhymed

01:33 like gears, Gila.

01:34 Yeah, well it's certainly not correct.

01:36 Number three is a very important kind of one, so if you take away like nothing else from

01:42 this video, here this one.

01:44 On the East Coast, we've got Bicheno.

01:47 Now, it's very important that you pretend that the T is an S. I've heard it the opposite

01:55 kind of way and look, I mean like it's not pretty is it?

01:58 No, no, not at all.

01:59 It's not pretty.

02:00 Which takes us to number two.

02:01 Yeah, out near the airport, near Island Block and Paving, nice little place there, you've

02:09 got Bridalbain.

02:10 Bridalbain, yes.

02:11 Not Brittlebane or whatever else you're going to go with.

02:15 Brittlebane, people say.

02:16 Yeah, the roundabout place, it's Brittlebane.

02:19 Brittlebane.

02:21 Which brings us of course to number one.

02:23 There won't be any surprises here for anyone.

02:25 It is of course every mainlander's favourite, Launceston.

02:31 Now you often hear people say Launceston and I can understand why because you know, like

02:40 city parks, lovely, very lush.

02:41 We've got, you know, down the road we've got a world champion bowler in Bradbeck-upon-Ash

02:47 but it's not Launceston is it, pardon me?

02:50 No, it is Launceston or Launston like it is in the UK.

02:55 There's a few different pronunciations but Launceston is the one we're sticking with

03:00 and we are the Launceston Examiner, we should know how to say our own name.

03:05 So you've got to take it from us.

03:07 I have heard people say every other word that's got a-u-n, it's that awn like sound and I

03:14 think they've got a point to some extent.

03:17 Like we're just, you know, you've got haunches, you've got, you know, you've got sauna, launch,

03:23 laundry, staunch, gauntlet, even leprechaun.

03:26 But what people have got to understand is that it's a cultural pronunciation.

03:32 Like you wouldn't go to France and come up to a Frenchman and say, "Hey mate, I'm pretty

03:38 sure it's actually Paris, I'm not sure why you're saying Paris."

03:42 And it's the same with Launceston, we're very cultured people.

03:45 Yeah, that's one way of putting it.

03:48 But yes, it's Launceston guys, that's all you need to know.

03:53 That is all you need to know.

03:54 Which takes us to, we've hit the top five hardest to pronounce place names.

04:00 We're going to go to Quickfire Pronunciation.

04:03 Pardo, I understand that you've been on a road trip around northern Tasmania recently.

04:09 Can you tell us where you went?

04:11 You're really putting me to the test here.

04:13 But I started here in Launceston.

04:15 I've driven to the beach at Port Sorrel in the Narrantapu National Park, back in time

04:20 for someone's wedding at Quambi.

04:22 I fit in a round of golf there, finished A8 holes, 6 under.

04:25 Might be a bit of a lie.

04:27 But then went south to Laiowene, which is also known for being 6 under, 6 degrees under zero.

04:34 I've taken the pipeline through to Poitina and now I'm heading east.

04:38 I'll take the train through the middle of the highway at Canara, stop off for some cookies,

04:43 chicken in Avoca, and I'll stay the night at Bed in a Shed in Fingal.

04:48 Great accommodation.

04:49 Next morning I'm back north through Smeries Pass and Snellens to Derby, which is pronounced

04:54 Derby.

04:55 It's only a Derby when Wynnalir and Branksholm used to play in the NEFU.

04:59 I'll grab a steak sandwich at the Pub at a Paddock in Pyengarna.

05:03 I've seen the carved memorial trees on the way through to Ringarooma, visited the mountain

05:09 at Ben Lomond, which is bigger than Ben Hur but smaller than Ben Nevis.

05:12 In Scotland, yep.

05:13 I'm driving back through Bredalbun, Adelaide's the city of churches and Bredalbun's the city

05:18 of the roundabout.

05:19 It is.

05:20 And I'm back home.

05:21 There you have it.

05:22 Try that at home.

05:23 It is an excellent, probably two days' work to get through all that.

05:26 Thanks so much for joining us.

05:28 It's been a great pleasure to, I guess, like, let all of you guys in on some of the local

05:34 tips of how to pronounce place names in northern Tasmania.

05:38 Until next time.

05:40 Cheers.

05:41 Cheers.

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