Why does Australia Have Weird City Names?

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REAL Australian Place Names

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[nicolelubelski]

A must mention is
Mount Disappointment
Went there myself & yeah after climbing, it’s definitely a disappointment so aptly named

[MargotHypnos]

I actually turn off my street onto Cockburn road. A popular name in WA, named after Sir Admiral George Cockburn. It is pronounced by locals as CO-BURN, it has a silent 'ck'. Loved the video thanks.

[joandsarah]

No one has more hilarious place names then us.

[peterdent]

At some point in history it was like Australia was doing things behind its parents back

[shezza]

I used to live near tumble down dick hill as a kid. It was named after a bullock that fell down the hill.

[helloshiny]

i've been to the Rooty Hill RSL a few times. it's cool. real old school suburban but flashy club. lots of neon lights inside like Vegas. pokies and lots of good bands. i used to go watch the bands and draw them live. cool me, oreos.

[a.zubiri]

i live near dionysus park in bacchus marsh (farming town) moorabool shire, bout half an hour away from lerdederg

[SebastianManjurlpurr-pu]

I'm an Aboriginal man 45 yr old, 😂 🤣 I'm from top end we have funny names, what a ripper

[MidnightEcho_]

how the hell did they miss "son of a bitch spur" on Mt Bulla VIC (think its mt bulla anyways)

[kathleenmayhorne]

A lot of those place names would have been coined by gold miners, folk we'd call rough as guts. Not the kind of folk who'd be at home in a formal drawing room, but aussies none the less. Plenty of them, richer than you could guess. Who would say no to them? Woolamaloo is an aboriginal word, not a problem for us to say, he got it all wrong though.

[rustyboi]

There's a place in Victoria near Mt Mitta Mitta called Towong. The most famous thing about Towong is that Towong's don't make a right. Lol. But yes, there are heaps of funny place names down here.

[aussiebornandbred]

The AI voice over mispronounced a lot of these names lol

[SimonEnglish-ecfo]

From birth us Aussies have a great sense of humour, we just love to take the piss out of anything including ourselves 😂♥️

[roberte]

The residents of Bogan (place or whatever) petitioned to the Council for a name change. It was rejected. I would never live on a street called many bad connotations.

[clmm]

Man, it missed out on so many top end names!

[JanetWilkins-yz]

Innaloo inn-a-loo a suburb of Perth.

[thsealord]

Congrats on using 'Taking the pi$$" exactly right. :)

Woolloomooloo is a suburb in Sydney. Aboriginal name. Pronounced "WOOL-er-MER-loo".

The narrator in that video did a LOT of mispronunciations, I should point out.

A key to pronouncing many Aussie place names is to put hard primary emphasis on the first syllable and swallow the rest. For example, Melbourne is "MELL-bin". Not, as many Yanks say, "mell-BOOOORN". Adelaide is "AD-laid", not "adel-IDE'. Canberra is "KAN-bra", but if you're a politician or otherwise trying to seem better than you are, it might be "kan-BER-ah. Brisbane is "BRIZ-bin", not 'briss-BANE". And so on.

Continuing to enjoy your intro to the awesomeness that is Australia. :)

[rmarx]

For some reason Australians are obsessed with "Dunn". Crocodile "Dunn" dee, we call the toilet a "Dunn" y....hell we even have a town near Ballarat called "Dunn" stown. It's pretty disturbing actually.

[graemewinfield]

Missed Innaloo and pronounced some wrong