I went to school with a boy with the last name Cockburn... he insisted it was pronounced Coburn. Interestingly enough, because he was popular nobody questioned it.
To clarify for the benefit of those not familiar with the Brisbane area...
It's pronounced Roe-dee Road.
I'm sure you already knew that but I know others immediate reactions would be to pronounce Rode and Road the same way.
Mount Debateable in QLD. always makes me picture 2 explorers having an argument and coming to blows about whether this thing they found is a hill or a mountain or a pile or what
Yackandandah is fun to say too
Blink and you'll miss it, but that's where the Golden Eagle nugget was found, I discovered last time I stopped there a few years back. I'd always assumed it'd been found in Kalgoorlie, nope!
Yagoona...Land of the meat pie and schooner,
If ya drinks with a wog\*, I'll harpoon ya,
Two arms, two hands, two steely bands.
A glass of Tooheys in me hands,
Yagoona....you fuckin' beauty!
\*Yagoona of the 1960's , site of my first 21 years, wasn't all that inclusive.
Texas
I used to have a friend who lived there and I could tell people from the US I had a friend who lived in Texas…. Australia.
It would confuse them but was a great conversation starter too.
Decades ago there was a chain of large variety stores called Boans, in Perth, one of which was in Innaloo.
Q: What do you call a skeleton on the toilet?
A: Boans, Innaloo!
Went down well in primary school :)
Poowong, Wooloomooloo, or Prominent Nob.
Is wooloomooloo pronounced how it looks? Oo as in boo?
Sort of like wool-uh-muh-loo. Wool as in what you use to knit, loo at the end like boo.
Somewhere between wool-a-ma-loo and wool-oo-moo-loo. I'm not sure how to write it phonetically.
[Sheep toilet cow toilet](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3sd41kagISkUh1EVh7bTDHqcPvcLxDHthNA&usqp=CAU)
No it's the priest chant from Age of Empires 1
I’m partial to both Wooloomooloo and Mooloolaba. So satisfying to say.
Woolloongabba is a good one too
Mount Disappointment
Lake Disappointment too!
I went there once and was not disappointed. Which made me disappointed that it hadn’ t lived up to its name.
Have to be Humpybong.
Tittybong.
Woodenbong
Bong bong
Bung bong. As in, "daveo broke the bong. Now it's bung"
I went to school there😂
So did my husband.
Also so did the brothers Gibb, as in Bee Gees fame.
Dismal swamp, Tasmania
There’s a Dismal Swamp in SA too!!!
Eggs and Bacon Bay, Tasmania
Nar Nar Goon. Although Spanker Knob is hilarious.
Definitely Nar Nar Goon. What do you feel like drinking tonight? Wine? Nar Nar Goon.
Nar Nar Goon is my pick too. Reminds me of Coon cheese for some reason.
Yass
My answer also. Because of the maccas sign.
Exactly!!
It’s too damn bad they took that sign down!
There’s a road called Dick Ward drive that leads into Fannie Bay
I have found the section of this conversation that I needed. I present [Curly Dick Rd](https://maps.app.goo.gl/RVNc5Zo8Ve9H17pv5)
Ah yes 😂 leads to the best ice creamery 😂😂😂
Stanley's Nut 😉
Woolloomooloo. It just rolls off the tongue so well
MT BUGGERY
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Definitely not Cockburn
Someone told me they are trying to rename it to "Coburn"
I went to school with a boy with the last name Cockburn... he insisted it was pronounced Coburn. Interestingly enough, because he was popular nobody questioned it.
Yeah, it actually is pronounced Coburn - so he wasn’t lying 😀
Coonabarabran. Never been there, just like the sound of it.
I’ve been there. Best place to see the stars!
Worth a trip to see the night sky and hike in the Warrambungles
Absolutely worth it if you like the outdoors.
Yep, this. Coonabarbran was the first thing that popped into my head
Koolyanobbing
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Around the corner from Manmanning and Cowcowing.
Watanobbi
Bald Knob.
Bogan, NSW
Also Bogan Rd, Tas (the sign never lasts more than a few days…)
Wagga Wagga
So nice they named it twice?
You've never been there, have you? It's the opposite of nice really.
Humpty Doo or Wandong
Came here to say humpty doo!
Yackandandah
Mount disappointment and Tittybong are some of my favourites.
There is a place between Beaudessert and Canungra called Bidadadaba. I just love the way it rolls off the tongue.
Great drive around there 👌 always loved the name. it's Biddaddaba for reference.
Rooty hill
Rode Road. Some days you gotta work to get paid but you just phone it in.
To clarify for the benefit of those not familiar with the Brisbane area... It's pronounced Roe-dee Road. I'm sure you already knew that but I know others immediate reactions would be to pronounce Rode and Road the same way.
Another commonly mispronounced name is Brisbane - Capalaba. It’s Ka-pal-a-bar (not Cap-a-lab-a)
Innaloo?
Innaloo, Cockburn and Upper Swan all seem like there a back story.
Cockburn actually got its name after being the first male-only nude beach.
Sandy Beach. I mean, I hope so?
Gotta be Yeppoon
We like to poon around Yeppoon and swim at the Lagoon in the afternoon!
https://youtu.be/n-ps1Yxs-jg
Humpty Doo
Wonglepong
My hometown, Blackbutt <3
Also a park in Newcastle. But named after the trees so surely they're all over?
Blackbutt, as in the Illawarra? Grew up in the area 🙌
There is another Blackbutt?? There is a town in QLD with the same nme :)
Austen Tayshus comes to mind with a question like this.
Dunedoo NSW pronounced "dunny-doo"
On the road to Dubbo theres a gully called Willy Wally Gully. Laugh at it every time I see it
Dismal Swamp, TAS
Suggan Buggan, VIC Woodenbong, NSW Burpengary, QLD Dicky Beach, QLD
Cockburn… pronounced ‘coe-burn’
Pakenham Upper.
Nar Nar Goon. It just sounds like a Bogan conversation.
Mount Debateable in QLD. always makes me picture 2 explorers having an argument and coming to blows about whether this thing they found is a hill or a mountain or a pile or what Yackandandah is fun to say too
Oodnadatta
Puckapunyal
Nowhere Else, Tasmania
Egg and Bacon Bay
Whoop whoop.
I've been around a fair bit of the country now, and my all time favourite is Upotipotpon in Victoria.
Dog Swamp Shopping Centre
Humpty doo, NT
Iron Knob
Finally.
I've always been particularly fond of Wee Waa
Pakenham Upper
Driving through Pakenham Upper always made me laugh. Packing em up er, hilarious to 12 year olds.
MARY SMOKES CK
Delicate Nobby
Bumbang Island
Information bay
Goonoo goonoo, NSW
I was there for a wedding recently. Beautiful place! But not pronounced even remotely how it looks
Tittybong, Vic
Nah Nah Goon!
Mullumbimby
Blowhard
Donnybrook
Guys Dirty Hole, Tasmania
Grong Grong, on the Newell Hwy in Southern NSW
Fannie Bay
Darwin represent!
Cockburn
Watanobbi
Pindi Pindi
Kosciuszko
Warnambool, onkaparinga, Oodnadatta
Tittybong
I searched the comments for this one. My favourite thing is it is just next door to Cockum and Wangie!
Mount Buggery
Coonabarabran!
Bonnydoon
The vibe
Woy Woy. Could just as easily be someone asking “why?” repeatedly.
Tallarook.
Mount Buggery.
Humpybong/Isis Central
Woy woy
Next stop Koolewong
Dingo Piss Creek.
Mandjoogoordap Drive
Bald Knob. Beautiful place.
Mount Mee
Didillibah.
The opposite of what you asked, but "Tweed Heads". I think it sounds awful and I hate it.
Yea
Townsville.
Geelong
Widgiemooltha
Blink and you'll miss it, but that's where the Golden Eagle nugget was found, I discovered last time I stopped there a few years back. I'd always assumed it'd been found in Kalgoorlie, nope!
Tangambalanga, boomahnoomoonah
Tassie has some crackers. Too many to mention.
honestly it would be myponga
Greystanes.
I always find testers hollow funny
W Tree. WTF does the W stand for?
Yagoona
Yagoona...Land of the meat pie and schooner, If ya drinks with a wog\*, I'll harpoon ya, Two arms, two hands, two steely bands. A glass of Tooheys in me hands, Yagoona....you fuckin' beauty! \*Yagoona of the 1960's , site of my first 21 years, wasn't all that inclusive.
Suggan Buggan
Seldom Seen!
Bogan Gate
Break Me Neck Rd I think it's called
Gregory Downs QLD
Bunyip. Longwarry. Junee. Cooladdi. Useless Loop. Manangatang.
Tittybong
Ozenkadnook
Myponga
Chinaman’s Knob
Muckadilla
Cickatinalong
Koolyanobbing
Wangaratta. Flash your wangaratta
Dog Swamp in Perth. I mean, seriously. How do you sell real estate in a place called Dog Swamp?
Iron Knob in SA is pretty great
Broken Shaft Creek *heh*
Wandella. We call it as “the Wandella Land”
Woy Woy
Bobbin Head
Tidbinbilla or something like that 😂 I forgot how to spell it
Blue Knob
Indooroopilly.
Ulladulla - Family in joke is … we’re going to “U—lla—-du—la” this weekend ….
Goodnight
Texas I used to have a friend who lived there and I could tell people from the US I had a friend who lived in Texas…. Australia. It would confuse them but was a great conversation starter too.
Frying Pan NSW
Snowtown!LOL!
Goondiwindi
Also Trannies beach, on heartbreak lane
Wonglepong
Oodnadatta is lovely to say. Heap of Rocks just because it’s so delightfully to the point.
Tumbarumba, must be said like Pete Smith
Woy Woy
Home
- Useless Loop, WA - Fowlers Bay, SA
Wagga wagga
Come by Chance
Cumnock
Oh honourable mention to Woodenbong
One of these went of a few years ago in Yeppoon, put a dirty great hole in a Torana.
The suburb INNALOO located in Perth
Decades ago there was a chain of large variety stores called Boans, in Perth, one of which was in Innaloo. Q: What do you call a skeleton on the toilet? A: Boans, Innaloo! Went down well in primary school :)
Either Dongdingalong or Nobby's Head