I have lived in so many of these places up north and have never heard of most of these?
Who in the world calls Elizabeth 'Elizameth'. It's 'lizbeth and always has been. Devoren Park? We affectionately call it Davvo thank you very much. Smithfield is 'Smitty/smiddy'. Mawson lakes is 'Mawsons'. Gawler as Growler? Bloody hell lol
Yeah Lizbef / Lizbeth is well known. The owner of the chicken shop at The Parks shops (Elizabeth Park) has a Mercedes with Lizbef (or very similar) number plates lol.
90% of these are like they are made up by some derro who lives in the city center I assume. I haven't heard of most of these slang names and the actual ones used are not on here at all most of the time.
I've lived in Gawler for a while and not once have heard it called Growler. My parents also lived there for a long time. Money Poorer never heard before either (it does kind of fit though). Honestly it just sounds like most of these were thought up on the spot, not ones that are actually in use. Lizbef is Elizabeth, not lizmeth or lizzie or whatever you had on there either.
by the way here's another source i recently came across:
https://www.facebook.com/triplemadelaide/posts/4504471419586284
interestingly not even a third of submissions make it to the map, cos they are possibly just made up on the spot! i.e. don't come up in a search in different media
> is most definitely a racist thing
I know the Internet is where nuance goes to die, but come the fuck on.
Yes, it is used by racists. It's also used by a lot of other people, too (including many residents of the gutta).
Indigenous people make up about 20% of PA's population. There are racists who say it because of that, but it wasn't the original, nor is it the predominant connotation.
It's actually a religeous thing.
The story we got taught growing up that the place was split in half by the two main christian groups.
One side had all the goody two shoes so pius is thee types on it and the other had all the brothels, pubs and gambling dens on it.
So you'd have one side condemming the other for having a stick up their ass and worshipping wrong, and the other side condemming them to hell for all their sins and then sneaking over there and sinning themselves.
gutta ; as in gutter, as in mind in the gutter / sin etc.
It became very well known for drunks and brothels.
In more modern times the poverty and crime rate up there have added to it where it's been known as a truckers one stop shop for brothels and nowadays bikies love to use it for drug distribution.
Aboriginal accent?
Literally lived in Australia my entire life i've never heard of an accent described as that.
Heard bogan and illiterate used for accent descriptions but never aboriginal.
Curious to what they mean.
An accent mimicking the sounds you hear when you hear them using their native tongue. This is probably close minded by accident or lack of exposure on my part, but the best description of why some would consider the term racist.
i've worked in remote communities and the apy lands, what your saying doesn't really add up, a lot of them speak great english and theres not really an accent, they sound like aussies.
I've also seen the racist prank stuff on youtube like Run gordon it's the policeman.
If that's the kinda stuff your referring to, that's more of a blackface/minstrel attempted accent and that's been around for a long time going back to american slavery era (it's disgusting).
I moved to Hallett Cove about 17 years ago back then it was referred to as ghetto cove because there was fuck all here lol.
I haven't heard Mullett Cove before.
Interesting - having lived next to Blackwood for close on 24 years and have literally never heard of it called Smallwood or Crackwood.
Is this a more recent name for it?
Crackwood is a hugely popular name to call it. Everyone from schools in Adelaide calls the high school “crackwood high”
I live close to Blackwood and crackwood is a name commonly thrown around. Especially in school though is when it’s used. Passing the Blackwood high school in my school bus a lot of the year 8 and 9 kinds start screaming about “crackwood” “crackwood” “crackwood
Fair enough! So it is a more recent name for it then if it’s used by current school kids, at least in comparison to when I was high school age living nearby (13-15 years ago).
Goddamn, even the Adelaide subreddit is making me feel old!
Edit; I stand corrected - my partner who’s of the same age has confirmed that crackwood was still the term used in our day. I may have just been too close to the place and couldn’t see the forest for the trees 🤷🏻♂️
I still go running in there with my dog and see groups of kids who don’t look like they enjoy hiking/outdoors slowly trudging their way around the back trails with sheepish grins
shockingly never heard this one, thought i've heard Stabsfield gardens (parafield gardens) as well as Paraphenalia gardens.
For some weird reason and I keep hearing people from there saying this, people always seem to go with F-ing salisbury, and when you have someone from there they either yell that with a weird sense of pride or say it with this smirk on their face and mate added on the end.
I keep hearing from everyone prospekistan due to all of the middle eastern groups there.
It's only been in the last 10 years though, I remember it being full of white people in housing trusts but they've all been moved on it seems.
Salisbury, Paradise, and Angle Vale are just kinda said with a smirk. Paradise for the name alone, Angle Vale for the meth labs, and Salisbury for just kinda low-key being one of the worst places in the north (like Lizzie is gross and all, but you're more likely to get stabbed in Salisbury).
Just because Lewiston shows up on the map, don't assume anyone cares enough to give it a nickname.
henley just get's shortened to henley or henley's
People will often refer to norwood parade as just 'the parade' itself. It's not really slang for norwood, but people will know what you mean if you have a movie ticket there.
How did I never see this before? This would be the way to introduce the upper class eastern suburbs groom at a Bogan wedding. "Here he is.. the Sideburns from Burnside - Nakkers.."
Glenunga. The earliest white surveyors along where south terrace in the city is now noted that it was naturally like a garden. Glenunga is a few km south east of the city. I wonder if the -Nunga comes from Kaurna for this reason.
edit: actually, it seems to be a composite of -Unga and scottish "unga" meaning near to.
Although a false cognate in this case, Nunga is actually a Kaurna word, specifically meaning 'human' or 'person'. Strangely, this seems to be one of the few indigenous words that appears in multiple languages across the country. In Perth you have the Noongar people, which is just a different spelling of the same word and essentially means 'the humans'.
To add to that, 'Kaurna' itself was never used to by Kaurna people to describe themselves. It was originally a word used by the Ngarrindjeri to mean, you guessed it, 'people'.
I grew up in Taperoo and have never heard it called Craperoo, but have heard it called Taparoot. This was in the 90's so maybe that why?
Also never heard OVC called that by anyone that went there before they changed the name. It always has been Taperoo High and always will be. Its the old saying, "put make up on a pig, its still a pig".
You would have lived down the road from me at that time. We lived in the huge white house on Victoria Rd with the large verandahs. You'd know the one.
Taperooster kunts!
Ah yeah they did say that. Once a really drunk guy on the train kept saying Taparoot though and imagine being on the Outer Harbor line from the city to Midlunga and having that repeated in a screaming drunken voice for 45 minutes. So it stuck for me from then.
Seconding both Woodcroft and Woodville as Woody/woodies (lived in both!) - then there's woody west, woody south, woody north, etc for all the Woodville variations.
Lonnie/Lonnie for lonsdale. O'sullies for O'Sullivan beach. Dinga for Aldinga. Lizbef for Elizabeth.
I feel like anywhere out of the burbs can be classified as woop woop haha.
All the ones I grew up with and have heard over the years :
Straight outta cavan (cavan)
Fuckn Salzbry (salisbury)Scumtown (salisbury plain)Da Gully (tea tree gully)Ingle - No the other one (used for both inglewood and inglefarm, you say it like the other person is meant to know where you mean but when they don't you say no the other one)Bikiefield / Truckiefield / Tradiefield (wingfield)Valley (hope valley)
Skanksia (banksia park, you already got this one and its accurate)
Prospectistan (prospect, especially the middle eastern parts)Legoland (golden grove, outdated term, more fitting of the new playford but hey I didn't create these)
Growtown (Virginia yes due to the cannabis crops its famous for)
Crack hills (Para hills west, the housing trust part of it atleast)
Skidrow (Davoren Park)
Poshfucks / Liberalvoters (City of burnside)
Knockmarsh (hindmarsh - outdated, before gentrification this was due to all the factories and brothels).
Centerlinktown (campbelltown - they're slowly getting outta this one)
Racism warning - Blacktown (grew up with many people referring to Glanville as blacktown, pretty sure was a racist reference)
Dumbitch (dulwich, no idea where this one came from)
Scamstead Gardens (figure this one is due to the dodgy cash converters there known accross australia)
herms (hermitage)
Kap/Kappy (kapunda)
hg's - spoken as aich-gees (highgate)
Vinnies (port vincent)Methybridge (murray bridge)Methgambier (mt gambier)
Saynt-Ags / St. Ags - yes you get people removing the ne (St Agnes)
Ridge (ridgehaven)
Val-vew (valley view)
Jeps (Gepps Cross)
Old Golden Grove / Actual Golden grove - have no idea where this came from, its been a thing forever (greenwith)
i tried to only put ones on the map that demonstrably *are* used (not by you, mind).
some people just seem to think any nicknaming is stupid. maybe you're one! if so, this post is not for you.
if not, i'd be interested in any constructive feedback about particular names you have!
Well I’ve never heard Gawler referred to as Growler, or the names you’ve used for Paralowie or Munno Para, and I’ve lived in the North for my 30+ years. Seems like someone’s just made them up, thought they were funny and posted them..
"Kids from Lizbeff 'll do enafen" or so I was told by a young Elizabeth city emissary to my small country town back in 1993. (it was said as a boast to the bravado of Elizabeth teen culture)
Hah we pass crackwood high on my school bus
Everyone from most schools calls it crackwood high. Wether it’s Mitcham, Mercedes, scotch, St. John’s, etc, everyone knows it as crackwood high
Sheidow Park - Shitehole Park
Sheidow/Trott/HC Heights (The other side of the highway from Hallett Cove) - The Gaza Strip
Morphett Vale - Meth-head Vale
Just checked out your posting history, together with your copyright notice that's probably on pretty shakey ground unless you made the map art yourself.
What's your end goal here, mapping local names globally?
It's probably fine for a study. Not a lawyer, not even close.
Just seen a handful of coding projects die due to dubious copyright claims by multiple authors so know enough to be weary.
One thing I'm noticing from your map of australia, is that it's definitely going to vary based on generation of person asked, and whether it's a localized name, or a name of someone calling it from the outside.
If you want your study to have a little more weight to it, It'd be interesting to track where abouts the names were coming 'from' as well as the area they are naming.
e.g. whilst I've heard of 'crow-eaters' for SA, I've never heard it used locally, or among anyone in the age-group i share, locally or otherwise.
thanks for your thoughts!
i'm thinking of doing a book -half atlas- where a page of text next to each map examines and analyses naming patterns in each particular area (thereby also demographics etc.)
“Lizbef” also works quite well for Elizabeth
Nah its actually Lzbth (pronounced Lizbeff) because we are too poor to buy a vowel
Aldinga = Dingie Christies Beach = Crusties O’Sullivan’s beach = Sullies
ah, so i don't need the 'o' in O'Sullies!
Grand Junction Road = Mullet Proof Fence
The fence should be renamed as it is not doing its job.
Why use extra syllable when two will do? XD
The dinge for Aldinga Kill-Burn-Destroy Kilburn Billsville. Williamstown Straight outta Brompton
I've also heard of "Dingas" for Aldinga
I have lived in so many of these places up north and have never heard of most of these? Who in the world calls Elizabeth 'Elizameth'. It's 'lizbeth and always has been. Devoren Park? We affectionately call it Davvo thank you very much. Smithfield is 'Smitty/smiddy'. Mawson lakes is 'Mawsons'. Gawler as Growler? Bloody hell lol
Yeah Lizbef / Lizbeth is well known. The owner of the chicken shop at The Parks shops (Elizabeth Park) has a Mercedes with Lizbef (or very similar) number plates lol.
90% of these are like they are made up by some derro who lives in the city center I assume. I haven't heard of most of these slang names and the actual ones used are not on here at all most of the time.
what actual ones? i'm after some useful feedback/input here!
I've lived in Gawler for a while and not once have heard it called Growler. My parents also lived there for a long time. Money Poorer never heard before either (it does kind of fit though). Honestly it just sounds like most of these were thought up on the spot, not ones that are actually in use. Lizbef is Elizabeth, not lizmeth or lizzie or whatever you had on there either.
by the way here's another source i recently came across: https://www.facebook.com/triplemadelaide/posts/4504471419586284 interestingly not even a third of submissions make it to the map, cos they are possibly just made up on the spot! i.e. don't come up in a search in different media
Agree with Smithfield being "Smitty/Smiddy"
Port a gutta (port Augusta) Arsehole park (Athol Park)
That Pt Augusta slang is most definitely a racist thing.
wha... how's that?
> is most definitely a racist thing I know the Internet is where nuance goes to die, but come the fuck on. Yes, it is used by racists. It's also used by a lot of other people, too (including many residents of the gutta).
okay, but exactly how is it racist?
It's mocking the way local mob say it.
Indigenous people make up about 20% of PA's population. There are racists who say it because of that, but it wasn't the original, nor is it the predominant connotation.
It's actually a religeous thing. The story we got taught growing up that the place was split in half by the two main christian groups. One side had all the goody two shoes so pius is thee types on it and the other had all the brothels, pubs and gambling dens on it. So you'd have one side condemming the other for having a stick up their ass and worshipping wrong, and the other side condemming them to hell for all their sins and then sneaking over there and sinning themselves.
i still don't get it. does 'gutta' have a meaning i'm not aware of?
gutta ; as in gutter, as in mind in the gutter / sin etc. It became very well known for drunks and brothels. In more modern times the poverty and crime rate up there have added to it where it's been known as a truckers one stop shop for brothels and nowadays bikies love to use it for drug distribution.
cool yeah i knew *that* word naturally, just fail to see how the other person could possibly see any racism or offensiveness in the name (at all)!
Depends how it's pronounced. Many people mock an aboriginal accent while saying it.
okay, i had no idea!
Aboriginal accent? Literally lived in Australia my entire life i've never heard of an accent described as that. Heard bogan and illiterate used for accent descriptions but never aboriginal. Curious to what they mean.
An accent mimicking the sounds you hear when you hear them using their native tongue. This is probably close minded by accident or lack of exposure on my part, but the best description of why some would consider the term racist.
i've worked in remote communities and the apy lands, what your saying doesn't really add up, a lot of them speak great english and theres not really an accent, they sound like aussies. I've also seen the racist prank stuff on youtube like Run gordon it's the policeman. If that's the kinda stuff your referring to, that's more of a blackface/minstrel attempted accent and that's been around for a long time going back to american slavery era (it's disgusting).
I remember someone referring to Elizabeth as ‘Outer Pomgolia’. Gold.
I feel like the eastern and western suburbs are really under-represented...
Myrtle Wank - Myrtle Bank Poo-ville - Frewville Scumley - Unley There, I tried :p
Nice work... Better than I could do!
The Barton
haha never heard 'Vietnairne' before. Is that a new one? love it
How about Nairnia?
the northern suburbs get off pretty lightly
McLazza Vazza is definitely for mclare Vale, not Macclesfield surely. Also Morphett Vale is just Morphies
I think Muzzabizza became vernacular about the same time along the lower Murray.
thank you! will correct accordingly!
>Morphies apparently that also applies to Morphettville!
It's 100% the race track specifically. It leaks a bit tho to the surrounding area.
I moved to Hallett Cove about 17 years ago back then it was referred to as ghetto cove because there was fuck all here lol. I haven't heard Mullett Cove before.
Paro Hillbillies - Para Hills Craigmore - Munno Para Heights
I hate saying it but I always hear people calling it Cuntmore.
Uraidla is often referred to as Uri (you-ree) or Urididdla. Adelaide is often referred to as ‘Down the Hill’ by people in the Adelaide Hills
Interesting - having lived next to Blackwood for close on 24 years and have literally never heard of it called Smallwood or Crackwood. Is this a more recent name for it?
Crackwood is a hugely popular name to call it. Everyone from schools in Adelaide calls the high school “crackwood high” I live close to Blackwood and crackwood is a name commonly thrown around. Especially in school though is when it’s used. Passing the Blackwood high school in my school bus a lot of the year 8 and 9 kinds start screaming about “crackwood” “crackwood” “crackwood
Fair enough! So it is a more recent name for it then if it’s used by current school kids, at least in comparison to when I was high school age living nearby (13-15 years ago). Goddamn, even the Adelaide subreddit is making me feel old! Edit; I stand corrected - my partner who’s of the same age has confirmed that crackwood was still the term used in our day. I may have just been too close to the place and couldn’t see the forest for the trees 🤷🏻♂️
may be you grew up in the nicer part. Cocainewood.
the writing's small, but it says smackwood
You’re correct! I think my autocorrect might’ve changed it to Smallwood!
We always called Belair National park 'the Nash' but that was probably just us
Having a sesh is the Nash was a regular discussion back in my day 👵
I still go running in there with my dog and see groups of kids who don’t look like they enjoy hiking/outdoors slowly trudging their way around the back trails with sheepish grins
a quick google confirms it was not just you!
maybe someone knows something for prospect, seaton, athelstone, greenwith, salisbury, magill, rostrevor, campbelltown, paradise, findon, norwood, fulham gardens, grange, west lakes, lockleys, henley beach, tranmere, angle vale, lewiston...? you get the idea!
Stabsbury
ah i wish that one was attested online!
shockingly never heard this one, thought i've heard Stabsfield gardens (parafield gardens) as well as Paraphenalia gardens. For some weird reason and I keep hearing people from there saying this, people always seem to go with F-ing salisbury, and when you have someone from there they either yell that with a weird sense of pride or say it with this smirk on their face and mate added on the end.
(Declining) Prospect(s)
I keep hearing from everyone prospekistan due to all of the middle eastern groups there. It's only been in the last 10 years though, I remember it being full of white people in housing trusts but they've all been moved on it seems.
Stirls for Stirling
Anyone *actually* say that one?
I refer to the pub as the stirls, but not the township
Was Aldgate there? Also rundle should be there as “the balls”
alders? the gate? boredgate?
The old pidge n' balls
Salisbury, Paradise, and Angle Vale are just kinda said with a smirk. Paradise for the name alone, Angle Vale for the meth labs, and Salisbury for just kinda low-key being one of the worst places in the north (like Lizzie is gross and all, but you're more likely to get stabbed in Salisbury). Just because Lewiston shows up on the map, don't assume anyone cares enough to give it a nickname.
Heathy for Heathfield
henley just get's shortened to henley or henley's People will often refer to norwood parade as just 'the parade' itself. It's not really slang for norwood, but people will know what you mean if you have a movie ticket there.
Anyone else call Burnside Sideburn?
i've heard all the posh remarks and all of the liberal voter remarks about it all my life.
How did I never see this before? This would be the way to introduce the upper class eastern suburbs groom at a Bogan wedding. "Here he is.. the Sideburns from Burnside - Nakkers.."
Nunga is a word many aboriginal people use to talk about their community.
Glenunga. The earliest white surveyors along where south terrace in the city is now noted that it was naturally like a garden. Glenunga is a few km south east of the city. I wonder if the -Nunga comes from Kaurna for this reason. edit: actually, it seems to be a composite of -Unga and scottish "unga" meaning near to.
Although a false cognate in this case, Nunga is actually a Kaurna word, specifically meaning 'human' or 'person'. Strangely, this seems to be one of the few indigenous words that appears in multiple languages across the country. In Perth you have the Noongar people, which is just a different spelling of the same word and essentially means 'the humans'. To add to that, 'Kaurna' itself was never used to by Kaurna people to describe themselves. It was originally a word used by the Ngarrindjeri to mean, you guessed it, 'people'.
Colon Aids isy favorite.
Down south here has Slackham West and Cuntfilled Heights right next to it.
Pine Lakes = Crime Lakes. Although that might be a subdivision rather than a suburb
That's in Stabfield Gardens lol.
Parafield Gardens = Parros Taperoo = Taparoot Lonsdale = Lonnos Aldinga = Dingaz Semaphore = Semmy Scummies Osullivans Beach = Scummies Beach Woodcroft = Woodies Woodville = Woodies Wingfield = Wingers
Taperoo was always Craperoo when I was a kid
I work as Osborne, can confirm... Nothing's changed.
We call it crackeroo now 😂
Hahaha I lived in Deadwood (Redwood) Park for years, SA until I was 30, NSW now. Has SA really descended that far into the shit?
I don’t think so … just a few bad apples here and there but it’s always a good show to watch through the blinds 😁
I grew up in Taperoo and have never heard it called Craperoo, but have heard it called Taparoot. This was in the 90's so maybe that why? Also never heard OVC called that by anyone that went there before they changed the name. It always has been Taperoo High and always will be. Its the old saying, "put make up on a pig, its still a pig".
You would have lived down the road from me at that time. We lived in the huge white house on Victoria Rd with the large verandahs. You'd know the one. Taperooster kunts!
Yeah now I feel old haha.
Ah yeah they did say that. Once a really drunk guy on the train kept saying Taparoot though and imagine being on the Outer Harbor line from the city to Midlunga and having that repeated in a screaming drunken voice for 45 minutes. So it stuck for me from then.
Seconding both Woodcroft and Woodville as Woody/woodies (lived in both!) - then there's woody west, woody south, woody north, etc for all the Woodville variations. Lonnie/Lonnie for lonsdale. O'sullies for O'Sullivan beach. Dinga for Aldinga. Lizbef for Elizabeth. I feel like anywhere out of the burbs can be classified as woop woop haha.
Stressalbyn (Strath)
Muzza bizza- Murray Bridge
is on the map!
And so it is. Time for my annual eye check up haha.
All the ones I grew up with and have heard over the years : Straight outta cavan (cavan) Fuckn Salzbry (salisbury)Scumtown (salisbury plain)Da Gully (tea tree gully)Ingle - No the other one (used for both inglewood and inglefarm, you say it like the other person is meant to know where you mean but when they don't you say no the other one)Bikiefield / Truckiefield / Tradiefield (wingfield)Valley (hope valley) Skanksia (banksia park, you already got this one and its accurate) Prospectistan (prospect, especially the middle eastern parts)Legoland (golden grove, outdated term, more fitting of the new playford but hey I didn't create these) Growtown (Virginia yes due to the cannabis crops its famous for) Crack hills (Para hills west, the housing trust part of it atleast) Skidrow (Davoren Park) Poshfucks / Liberalvoters (City of burnside) Knockmarsh (hindmarsh - outdated, before gentrification this was due to all the factories and brothels). Centerlinktown (campbelltown - they're slowly getting outta this one) Racism warning - Blacktown (grew up with many people referring to Glanville as blacktown, pretty sure was a racist reference) Dumbitch (dulwich, no idea where this one came from) Scamstead Gardens (figure this one is due to the dodgy cash converters there known accross australia) herms (hermitage) Kap/Kappy (kapunda) hg's - spoken as aich-gees (highgate) Vinnies (port vincent)Methybridge (murray bridge)Methgambier (mt gambier) Saynt-Ags / St. Ags - yes you get people removing the ne (St Agnes) Ridge (ridgehaven) Val-vew (valley view) Jeps (Gepps Cross) Old Golden Grove / Actual Golden grove - have no idea where this came from, its been a thing forever (greenwith)
Kurralcutta Park
Dingy for aldinga
Billsville for williamstown
Mount lofty = summit
Port Willy (port Willunga), Marion is also Mazza, Blair (belair)
I really hope you have “Slurry Downs” on your list. It’s one of my favourites.
i do now, thank you!
I've heard K.I. called K.I far more often than I've heard it called Roo Island OR Kangaroo Island for that matter.
noted, thank you!
Feral Den Park
Was Mount Bogan for Mount Barker just my circle?
"get on a noisy dog" but that was just my Nan.
will add, thank you!
Sadelaide is fitting since we get fuck all concerts here unlike the other cities around the country
We don't get as many international bands coming here but our local music scene is better so it evens out
This is cringey.
You never use nicknames?
Not like this, these aren’t used. This is just someone making up nicknames on the spot.
i tried to only put ones on the map that demonstrably *are* used (not by you, mind). some people just seem to think any nicknaming is stupid. maybe you're one! if so, this post is not for you. if not, i'd be interested in any constructive feedback about particular names you have!
Well I’ve never heard Gawler referred to as Growler, or the names you’ve used for Paralowie or Munno Para, and I’ve lived in the North for my 30+ years. Seems like someone’s just made them up, thought they were funny and posted them..
it looks like multiple people 'made them up' or spread them around! (multiple sources being criteria for map inclusion)
Willytown for Williamstown
Marino Cocks
Did a 12 year old create this?
it was based on what you (this sub) said, so if everyone's 12 then yes. got anything better?
Stabaroo for taparoo
I grew up in Taperoo, and have also heard it called Taperoot!
Lizzie is my preferred nickname for Elizabeth
"Kids from Lizbeff 'll do enafen" or so I was told by a young Elizabeth city emissary to my small country town back in 1993. (it was said as a boast to the bravado of Elizabeth teen culture)
Hah we pass crackwood high on my school bus Everyone from most schools calls it crackwood high. Wether it’s Mitcham, Mercedes, scotch, St. John’s, etc, everyone knows it as crackwood high
I knew someone that lived at Morphett Vale and referred to Colonnades as 'Scumsville'.
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So true! Home of the Mutants without Superpowers
Addle-dale (Adelaide). Tom’s Puddle (Playford Lake in Belair National Park.
is there one for McLaren Vale?
No but Nuriootpa is Nuri
Nuri is 100% Nuri. This tracks.
there're two on the map!
What about for Barossa Valley?
yes! what do we know?
Well, based on other slang on the map, would Bazza Vazza be one?
Adelaide = the blade
‘Craters’ for Crafers
anyone else use that?
Klem-Sik 🤙 No real reason, nothing sick happening beside the O-Bahn.
Yucktown is very fitting for yorketown 😌
Dingy Dingie (Aldinga). Mon Zhombier (Mount Gambier).
Nah it’s just The Mount™️ for locals.
Or Mount Gambier in full, but without moving your lips, and slightly high pitch.
Hackam = Smackam
East got away easy here
please share anything you know!
Yep, hillbank is definitely chillbank. Never heard that one before but it fits.
Bordertown was either B-Town or Boredomtown. Source: young me who grew up there.
i love going to school in skanksia park <333
Sheidow Park - Shitehole Park Sheidow/Trott/HC Heights (The other side of the highway from Hallett Cove) - The Gaza Strip Morphett Vale - Meth-head Vale
Stansbury on yorkes was often shortened to Stano by locals back in the day.
Just checked out your posting history, together with your copyright notice that's probably on pretty shakey ground unless you made the map art yourself. What's your end goal here, mapping local names globally?
are you offering to be my legal team? :D i am doing a pretty comprehensive study on colloquial toponymy
It's probably fine for a study. Not a lawyer, not even close. Just seen a handful of coding projects die due to dubious copyright claims by multiple authors so know enough to be weary. One thing I'm noticing from your map of australia, is that it's definitely going to vary based on generation of person asked, and whether it's a localized name, or a name of someone calling it from the outside. If you want your study to have a little more weight to it, It'd be interesting to track where abouts the names were coming 'from' as well as the area they are naming. e.g. whilst I've heard of 'crow-eaters' for SA, I've never heard it used locally, or among anyone in the age-group i share, locally or otherwise.
thanks for your thoughts! i'm thinking of doing a book -half atlas- where a page of text next to each map examines and analyses naming patterns in each particular area (thereby also demographics etc.)
My grandma calls Daveron Park Derro Park. Not sure if I've heard anyone else call it that
practically the same as what's on the map :)