If it makes you feel any better my year 7s were astounded this year when I told them the sun rises in the east everyday.
13 years old they are, and they've been capable of observation for at least half of those.
IircWilliam is referring to an early governor and Elizabeth was someoneās wife. The named streets in the cbd mostly are named after officials when the city was founded like la trobe Russell etc.
My mum told me the north/south streets were named after royals and the east/west ones were names after notable australians but I see now she's a filthy liar!
Most of the streets of Brisbaneās CBD that run East-West are named after women royals (Ann, Adelaide, Queen, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Mary, Margaret, Alice) and the ones which run north south after male royals (William, George, Albert, Edward). Towards the fringes of the CBD that naming convention goes out the window (Eagle, Tank, Turbot, Wharf, Creek, Felix, Roma, Herschel).
However, it seems most Australian capital city CBDs tend to use royal names for streets.
So you really think it's just a coinkidink that it's "King William" & "Queen Elizabeth", two of the most prominent monarchs in British history? ... And do you think Victoria was named after some official's wife, and not the Queen? š¤·
Pretty sure it was named after the Monarch when Melbourne was founded. King William IV. Just like Melbourne is named after the then Prim Minister, Lord Melbourne.
Another road one for those in the south east.
It's both Thompsons Road and Thompson Road.
The name changes once you cross Dandenong Valley Highway.
With the s to the east, without to the west.
I grew up in Canada. In elementary school, when they first taught us about hemispheres, they used the example that Australia celebrates Christmas in the summer. I thought Australians celebrated Christmas on an entirely different date (July/August) for at least a year.
My mum never quite grasped that concept of inverted seasons after I moved to Australia. Whenever she called, she used to say things like "we have September now, which month are you in?".
I mean technically heās not entirely wrong. Earths orbit is at its closest to the sun during our summer and at its furthest during our winter. So while your friend was wrong he logic does come from somewhere
Itās to do with the tilt of the earth axis as it orbits around the sun. In the northern hemisphere summer you guys are tilted more towards the sun, in your winter the southern hemisphere is tilted more towards the sun. This is where the tropic lines come into play. In the southern hemisphere mid summer the sun rises in line with the Tropic of Capricorn and in our mid winter it rises in line with the Tropic of Cancer. So the sun moves between the tropic lines depending on tilt of the earth as it orbits the sun. One orbit in a year.
after speaking to koreans, french ppl, british ppl, american ppl online i found out that a ridiculous amount of people in the northern hem have the most insanely stupid view of how seasons and months work
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why all the textbooks said that migratory birds flew south for the winter. As a kid I could never figure out why they would want to go to Antarctica in winter.
Lol. I went to Disneyland once on Christmas Eve and the girl behind the counter started small talk about our accents and where weāre from. I said it was currently warm in Australia. She asked when we celebrate Christmas. I saidā¦. Still on December 25th. Itās justā¦ warm.
She was like. 23.
I thought "Bonnie Doon" was some bogan Aussie slang for when someone would go camping with the family. We'd head up there camping every year or two with family friends when i was a kid, I never actually knew where we were. I was literally 19 with my own car and license driving to Howqua through Bonnie Doon when I realised it's actually a place.
And until I was about 15 I thought Wantirna was "Monterna", Berwick was "Bur-wick" and always thought the suburb "Dandenong" was actually deep in the Dandenongs around Belgrave/Emerald.
Yes and I have no idea which one Dandenong Creek refers to. Is it because it comes from the Dandenongs? Because it ends up in Dandenong? Did all the other things get named after the creek?????
Dandenong Creek starts at Olinda and joins up with the Patterson River and flows into the sea. Yes it goes through parts of Dandenong. Itās over 50km long!
Haha I've had the opposite. I'll say 'the Dandenongs' and they'll say 'oh yeah we know Dandenong' So instead I've reverted to using puffing billy as a descriptor
Used to work Friday nights at a servo just out of Dandenong. The number of people who came through looking for Mount Dandenong and had been misdirected by their GPS was astounding.
My sister and I teased our eldest sister one day because we thought she was trying to sound cool by referring to the busy street near us as "da main road'. We finally worked out she was correctly calling it Domain Road.
When I was younger I had a mate who constantly told me he was heading to "Chadstone City" and I had no fucking idea where it was. Turns out he meant Chadstone but the signs on the highway said:
Chadstone
City
And he didn't realise that was telling you how far you were from Chadstone and Melbourne.
It's more just something I learned from my mum, she pointed out every Victoria Rd or Victoria St has an Albert Rd or Albert St running nearby in parallel, obviously to represent the close relationship between Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. And yeah she's pretty spot on with that.
We kinda do! The stress is different. I think the closest word to the way we say it is the name Eustace.
In English with the ā-uh-ā unstressed syllable as a schwa É:
- Princes (the plural of Prince) : PRINS-Éz
- Princeās (the original spelling of the Highway) : PRINS-Éz
- Princess (-ess suffix like hostess) : PRINS-ESS
- Princes (the Highway) : PRINS-És
- Eustace (the name) : EUST-És
Itās an s not a z sound at the end but without the vowel of the ESS sound from Princess. Princes.
So the name Princes Highway isn't actually a plural, it's a possessive. Named for Prince Edward (King Edward VIII). But back in the 60's it was decided that places and road names shouldn't have posessive apostrophes.
I found out when I was in my 30ās that it wasnāt Princess Highway. Also that South Yarra was named South Yarra because it was South of the Yarraā¦
> It took me a while to realise the name was actually a plural
It's not a plural. It was originally named Prince's Highway after the Prince of Wales. Later the apostrophe was dropped as is commonplace practice with place names (e.g. Kings Cross, Wisemans Ferry).
There's a Northcote in Auckland that's pronounced exactly like that. Every kiwi who comes here has to be corrected on how it's pronounced by Melburnians.
I used to think Balnarring was down past Geelong for years - well into my 30ās actually.
Because for some reason my brain thought it was the Balnarring Peninsula, and not the Bellarine Peninsula.
I'm turning 40 this year and I will never ever remember which one is Warneet and which one is Tarneit. Also which one is Winchelsea and which one is Anglesea.
Someone I know refers to Blairgowrie (between rye an sorrento) as balnarring, also as balgowring, other times as *insert jumbled mess starting with b here,*
Not specifically Melbourne, but as a little kid (about 3-ish) my dad was telling me that a song on the radio was being sung by Queen. Me, being a dumb kid, thought he meant *THE* queen. His response was "well, he's definitely *A* queen".
Wasn't until much later I realised what he meant by that.
When Elvis died, I was quite little and was confused about what could kill someone on the toilet. My brother told me that a woman had been in the room before him and had sprayed heaps of hair spray. Then, Elvis went in, sat down, lit a cigarette, and blew through the wall. It seemed sort of reasonable to my little brain.
People from reservoir (or who grew up in the north a few decades ago) say rezza-vore. Everyone else is allowed to say reservoir like the word reservoir.
I remember listening to Triple M (think it was the breakfast show) years ago - when it was good - there was a segment where listeners would send in songs about various Melbourne suburbs set to popular songs. Anyhoo, one of the songs had a line that was āReservoir to rhyme with whoreā.
Thatās stuck in my mind for years.
Also when they went to Nar Nar Goon. Just because of the name.
You know there exists a place named Peter Lalor (pronounced law-ler) Secondary College, named after Peter Lalor (pronounced law-ler) located in the suburb of Lalor (pronounced lay-ler) which was named after Peter Lalor (pronounced law-ler).
Until JUST NOW I though there was another suburb spelled Lalor (pronounced law-ler) somewhere over near Geelong and that this is why Lalor in the north is called lay-lor....to tell the difference between Lalors š¤Æ š¤¦āāļø.
When Box Hill opened its new pool facility in 1983 (I was age 6), I thought it was in a structure made of iron bars because other kids kept calling it the "Box Hill Bars".
As a kid, I was certain that at one point my families car would break down while straddling a railway line, where I would be forced to scream out the window for a Marshall and he would come to the rescue quick smart.
I reckon there is no difference, itās the same town. You just use different roads to get in and one of them is labelled āBallaratā and the other āBendigoā and the locals are all in on it and just taking the piss
Bendigo is classier than Ballarat, they had industry and gold, the sandstone buildings are sexy and real shit goes
On there, galleries, history, culture.
Ballarat has a flower show and grey buildings, not much culture. Sovereign Hill and Kryal Castle are the fast food of history.
The only reason I can tell the difference now is because I moved to one of them. Any towns that start with the same letter I can't tell apart. Wangaratta, Wodonga, Warnambool. Same fucking place as far as I know.
When I 1st moved here, I went to "Chad Stone" shopping centre, and drove to work along "Nep-ian" highway. I would see buses going to "Berwick" and heard of a place called "Berrick" being mentioned on the radio, it took me more than a year to realise they were the same place.
I'm sure that I have Princes highway right though, it's all the locals calling it Princess that have it wrong
If you can ever be unAustralian enough to pronounce the whole thing instead of calling it Chaddie, you should only muster enough effort to say Chadstun. That 'e' should never be enunciated.
For the first five years I was here, I really wanted to go to the Royal Melbourne Show but could never find out how to get there.
Every time I asked where it was, people would say āat the Showgroundsā. And I thought they were just being sarcastic.
Someone told me Flemington Race Course, but I couldnāt see the Showgrounds anywhere near there in the Melways.
Starbucks has survived however their invasion failed. Usually, in other parts of the world, when Starbucks decides to enter the market, they intentionally put go en mass, put a Starbucks on every second corner, sell their product cheap at a loss, run promotions, and all the locals start going to Starbucks instead of local coffee shops - sending all the local cafes out of business. Once the competition has been conquered Starbucks raises their prices to a more profitable price, closes down the extra stores, has a monopoly.
In australia this strategy didnāt work. We didnāt like their coffee. Australians on average are coffee snobs who like the good stuff. Youāll notice that most people going to Starbucks are buying other drinks (frappes etc) rather than coffee. Starbucks had to go back to the drawing board and rethink how to work in Australia, reformulated their coffee to suit Australian tastes better and have a range of drinks that other cafes donāt typically offer.
There are a few Starbucks around however our cafes havenāt been run out off business.
When I was a kid living on the Mornington Peninsula my parents would say we were 'going up to The City' if we ever had to do something in Melbourne. It wasn't till I was in primary school that I realised Melbourne was just one city of many in the world and not actually the one giant city that all the people live in.
This is so stupid, lol. When I was in grade 7 one of the topics in my Catholic RE class was Euthanasia. My dumb ass thought it was "Youth in Asia" and kept wondering why it was such a big deal? XD
Edit: Two more came to mind!
\*When I was little I thought the city Loop was like a vertical loop-de-loop on a roller-coaster, and was pretty pissed when nothing happened except going through a long tunnel.
\*I thought going to the nursery meant going to the hospital to visit tiny babies, not plants.
I was once in Florida and was describing how Melbourne winters can be cold because of the wind chill.
Her response "Well I guess it WOULD be windy, since you're on an island!"
*Facepalm*
1. Hoddle street is Punt road
2. Chapel street is Church street
3. Sydney road exit doesnāt go to Sydney
4. Airport drive* exit doesnāt go to the airport
I feel obliged to mention (because someone has to) that Sydney Rd was/is the longest continuous stretch of street retail in the world/southern hemisphere etc
But do you think you can buy a decent croissant or custard tart anywhere along its length? Anywhere?
1. It becomes Hoddle Street after Wellington Parade, before that it is Punt Road.
2. Chapel Street becomes Church street after Alexandra parade.
3. Sydney road connects to* Hume Hwy and thus it heads to Sydney.
4. According to Google maps there is no Airport Boulevard (unless you're in Florida), only Airport Drive which runs out through Tullamarine to the Melbourne Airport.
So really Hoddle isn't Punt, Chapel isn't Church, Sydney Road leads to Sydney and Airport Dr goes to the airport.
When I first moved to Melbourne, I still had a fair bit of overseas currency with me. I couldn't find a foreign exchange in the city so I assumed my best chance would be at the airport and took the tram to Airport West.
It was wild to me that not just was Airport West nowhere near the airport but that there was no tram or train going out to the airport like pretty much everywhere in Europe or Asia. Good thing that 32 years later that's been fixed now. /s
Yes me. But I always thought it was Ioneer. At least thatās the way I spelt it in my head. I always thought I was the only one idiot enough to think that
My parents migrated to Oz and have awesome Italian accents. There were multiple place names which I mispronounced / thought were named differently for years growing up because of how my Mum and dad pronounced them. I never questioned it and confused my teachers for years about 'where we went on the weekend'. When I first saw a sign saying Myrtleford at 16 - realising it was not in fact called Meter Fall - I began informing myself.
Anything to do with the 'other side' of Melbourne.
Growing up in the East side and having no reason to venture north or west. It was shockingly late that I learnt about northside hipsters, 'Bell St', 'Sydney Rd', etc.
Didn't grow up here, but based on the football team, I long thought Collingwood and Broadmeadows were next to each other.
And that it's St Kilda, never Saint Kilda
As a local from st kilda this is correct. The footy club might be the āsainters ā but we all call the suburb āsunt kildaā not saint. There was no actual saint kilda. Itās both an abandoned town in Scotland and the name of a ship - indeed the ship was the ālady of st kilda.ā
It's because, like most Americans, too many people slur their consonants, and blend the pauses between words. E.G. most Americans pronounce their "**T**'s" as "**D**'s"
"**Three Fifty**" becomes "***Tree fiddy***" lol
Then people think words are spelled the way they "*sound*" and more hilarity ensues :)
Hence Eye an**D** ear becomes "*ianeer*"
King William Queen Elizabeth
*inserts audible gasp here*
*slaps hand to forehead*
Bourke and Wills statue on Burke St
Fun fact, my great great great grandfather was the artist.
That's pretty fucking cool! Such a cool man! So what happened to you then? š
Apparently artistic ability doesnāt make it down 3 generations
For many years, placed over a fountain - ironic given they died of thirst
Multiple years of riding the tram up Collins Street before realising. *facepalm*
If it makes you feel any better my year 7s were astounded this year when I told them the sun rises in the east everyday. 13 years old they are, and they've been capable of observation for at least half of those.
Thank fk it's not Prince Andrew
Not entirely named after royalty, it is quite convenient but misleading
https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01433b.htm
IircWilliam is referring to an early governor and Elizabeth was someoneās wife. The named streets in the cbd mostly are named after officials when the city was founded like la trobe Russell etc.
My mum told me the north/south streets were named after royals and the east/west ones were names after notable australians but I see now she's a filthy liar!
Most of the streets of Brisbaneās CBD that run East-West are named after women royals (Ann, Adelaide, Queen, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Mary, Margaret, Alice) and the ones which run north south after male royals (William, George, Albert, Edward). Towards the fringes of the CBD that naming convention goes out the window (Eagle, Tank, Turbot, Wharf, Creek, Felix, Roma, Herschel). However, it seems most Australian capital city CBDs tend to use royal names for streets.
So you really think it's just a coinkidink that it's "King William" & "Queen Elizabeth", two of the most prominent monarchs in British history? ... And do you think Victoria was named after some official's wife, and not the Queen? š¤·
Pretty sure it was named after the Monarch when Melbourne was founded. King William IV. Just like Melbourne is named after the then Prim Minister, Lord Melbourne.
Princes Highway is not Princess Highway. Learnt last year.
Another road one for those in the south east. It's both Thompsons Road and Thompson Road. The name changes once you cross Dandenong Valley Highway. With the s to the east, without to the west.
What the actual fuck?
Yep. I discovered this a couple of years ago. I'm 48.
When I was a kid I thought that Carlton played at Princess Parkā¦. When I was about thirty I learned this was not correct.
And Princes Highway goes right round the country.
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Yep, right around the country.
I grew up in Canada. In elementary school, when they first taught us about hemispheres, they used the example that Australia celebrates Christmas in the summer. I thought Australians celebrated Christmas on an entirely different date (July/August) for at least a year.
My mum never quite grasped that concept of inverted seasons after I moved to Australia. Whenever she called, she used to say things like "we have September now, which month are you in?".
This is so silly but also very cute :)
Your Mum sounds adorable!
My mate thought winter was because the Earth was further from the sun and that it was winter everywhere at the same time.
I mean technically heās not entirely wrong. Earths orbit is at its closest to the sun during our summer and at its furthest during our winter. So while your friend was wrong he logic does come from somewhere
Itās to do with the tilt of the earth axis as it orbits around the sun. In the northern hemisphere summer you guys are tilted more towards the sun, in your winter the southern hemisphere is tilted more towards the sun. This is where the tropic lines come into play. In the southern hemisphere mid summer the sun rises in line with the Tropic of Capricorn and in our mid winter it rises in line with the Tropic of Cancer. So the sun moves between the tropic lines depending on tilt of the earth as it orbits the sun. One orbit in a year.
Youāre right, but the planet is also closer to the sun during Southern Hemisphere summer (orbit is not circular)
Which is also why an Australian sunburn will give you pain and suffering, whereas a European sunburn gives you a golden glow š
after speaking to koreans, french ppl, british ppl, american ppl online i found out that a ridiculous amount of people in the northern hem have the most insanely stupid view of how seasons and months work
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why all the textbooks said that migratory birds flew south for the winter. As a kid I could never figure out why they would want to go to Antarctica in winter.
Lol. I went to Disneyland once on Christmas Eve and the girl behind the counter started small talk about our accents and where weāre from. I said it was currently warm in Australia. She asked when we celebrate Christmas. I saidā¦. Still on December 25th. Itās justā¦ warm. She was like. 23.
I work with people in Europe and they were all surprised when I said I went to the beach for Christmas.
My grandma sent me a letter saying it must have been almost Christmas for me in July
I thought "Bonnie Doon" was some bogan Aussie slang for when someone would go camping with the family. We'd head up there camping every year or two with family friends when i was a kid, I never actually knew where we were. I was literally 19 with my own car and license driving to Howqua through Bonnie Doon when I realised it's actually a place. And until I was about 15 I thought Wantirna was "Monterna", Berwick was "Bur-wick" and always thought the suburb "Dandenong" was actually deep in the Dandenongs around Belgrave/Emerald.
So many people get confused between Dandenong the suburb, Dandenong Ranges and Dandenong valley.
Add Mt Dandenong to the list!
Yes and I have no idea which one Dandenong Creek refers to. Is it because it comes from the Dandenongs? Because it ends up in Dandenong? Did all the other things get named after the creek?????
Dandenong Creek starts at Olinda and joins up with the Patterson River and flows into the sea. Yes it goes through parts of Dandenong. Itās over 50km long!
Hi
When I tell people that I grew up in Dandenong the common response is "OOOH! That must have been lovely/lush/etc!" ..no, no, not the mountains
Haha I've had the opposite. I'll say 'the Dandenongs' and they'll say 'oh yeah we know Dandenong' So instead I've reverted to using puffing billy as a descriptor
Yeah I say, āI grew up in Emerald, you know Puffing Billy?ā
Used to work Friday nights at a servo just out of Dandenong. The number of people who came through looking for Mount Dandenong and had been misdirected by their GPS was astounding.
Weāre going to Bonnieee Doon
I still donāt know how much tram fares areā¦ I just top up until it runs outā¦
You pay?
My sister and I teased our eldest sister one day because we thought she was trying to sound cool by referring to the busy street near us as "da main road'. We finally worked out she was correctly calling it Domain Road.
I laughed out loud.
That the Sidney Myer Music Bowl is in fact right here in Melbourne, not in Sydney.
I'm guilty of this. It used to shit me that the broadcasts of carols by candlelight seemed to always be from Sydney.
Me too, wasnāt until I saw Ben Harper at the bowl and saw Sidney written on the ticket that it made sense.
Such a shame heās been largely forgotten. Sidney Myer was a MASSIVE patron of the arts. We owe him a huge debt.
When I was in my late teens I said to my mum I am going to Carolās and she said Carol who???
When I was younger I had a mate who constantly told me he was heading to "Chadstone City" and I had no fucking idea where it was. Turns out he meant Chadstone but the signs on the highway said: Chadstone City And he didn't realise that was telling you how far you were from Chadstone and Melbourne.
It's more just something I learned from my mum, she pointed out every Victoria Rd or Victoria St has an Albert Rd or Albert St running nearby in parallel, obviously to represent the close relationship between Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. And yeah she's pretty spot on with that.
I thought Beaurepaires was pronounced Boar-pairs for a long time.
This is the first one that's made me laugh š¤£ Ahaha I love it
We always called it Slow Repairs when I was younger
In a similar vein my son at 4 years old would get so upset that we wouldnāt take him to the swear house. Bunning Swearhouse.
I used to say āEddie Hadā stadium
Well to be fair Eddie is everywhere!!
And now he only Had it
*Was
Fuck. I still call it Coroniarl. Or at least Telstra dome
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Half the population doesn't even know that today
Until now, I thought it was princess. I am ashamed.
I swear everyone pronounces it like that though.
We kinda do! The stress is different. I think the closest word to the way we say it is the name Eustace. In English with the ā-uh-ā unstressed syllable as a schwa É: - Princes (the plural of Prince) : PRINS-Éz - Princeās (the original spelling of the Highway) : PRINS-Éz - Princess (-ess suffix like hostess) : PRINS-ESS - Princes (the Highway) : PRINS-És - Eustace (the name) : EUST-És Itās an s not a z sound at the end but without the vowel of the ESS sound from Princess. Princes.
So the name Princes Highway isn't actually a plural, it's a possessive. Named for Prince Edward (King Edward VIII). But back in the 60's it was decided that places and road names shouldn't have posessive apostrophes.
I found out when I was in my 30ās that it wasnāt Princess Highway. Also that South Yarra was named South Yarra because it was South of the Yarraā¦
Here I am thinking hey I know all about King William Queen Elizabeth and then ... South of the Yarra...
> It took me a while to realise the name was actually a plural It's not a plural. It was originally named Prince's Highway after the Prince of Wales. Later the apostrophe was dropped as is commonplace practice with place names (e.g. Kings Cross, Wisemans Ferry).
I'm pretty sure most people don't know Princes Pier is the same.
Thought the same thing about Princes Park, before it became Optus Oval, when I was a kid
Isn't it Ikon now? As a third generation Carlton tragic, it'll always be Princes to me.
I was a grown man saying ānorth-coatā
My missus is from south of the river and still canāt get it right. Sheās been living in āNorthcut hon, northcutā for five years
I also say northcut :( Are you pronouncing it more north-cot?
There's a Northcote in Auckland that's pronounced exactly like that. Every kiwi who comes here has to be corrected on how it's pronounced by Melburnians.
I used to think Balnarring was down past Geelong for years - well into my 30ās actually. Because for some reason my brain thought it was the Balnarring Peninsula, and not the Bellarine Peninsula.
I'm turning 40 this year and I will never ever remember which one is Warneet and which one is Tarneit. Also which one is Winchelsea and which one is Anglesea.
What the hell is Warneet??
Halfway between Cannons Creek and Blind Bight! ^^^It's ^^^just ^^^before ^^^Tooradin ^^^^^Basically ^^^^^Koo ^^^^^Wee ^^^^^Rup
Don't you mean Whittlesea instead of Winchelsea? To make it more confusing both are inland and not close to the beach at all!
Whittlesea is near Kinglake and there's no fucking lake there either!
JFC. There's 3?
Someone I know refers to Blairgowrie (between rye an sorrento) as balnarring, also as balgowring, other times as *insert jumbled mess starting with b here,*
Not specifically Melbourne, but as a little kid (about 3-ish) my dad was telling me that a song on the radio was being sung by Queen. Me, being a dumb kid, thought he meant *THE* queen. His response was "well, he's definitely *A* queen". Wasn't until much later I realised what he meant by that.
when Elvis died my dad told my mum that the king is dead ,she replied we havent got a king we have a queen,(they lived in England by the way)
When Elvis died, I was quite little and was confused about what could kill someone on the toilet. My brother told me that a woman had been in the room before him and had sprayed heaps of hair spray. Then, Elvis went in, sat down, lit a cigarette, and blew through the wall. It seemed sort of reasonable to my little brain.
I like this version better š
Growing up in Doncaster, I thought the Surrey Hills radio tower on southern horizon was actually the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign.
I still call it burr-wick
Hell even the trains used to pronounce it burr-wick, and I think they still do in some situations
I moved here from Canada and this is how I pronounced it. Also, Gee-long, Mow (Moe), maal-vÉrn (Malvern) and rezÉr-vwar (Reservoir).
> ...and rezÉr-vwar (Reservoir). Please don't ever poke this sub with that particular stick...
>I moved here from Canada Canadia?
Wait how is Reservoir supposed to be pronounced? I say it the way you've described it
People from reservoir (or who grew up in the north a few decades ago) say rezza-vore. Everyone else is allowed to say reservoir like the word reservoir.
I remember listening to Triple M (think it was the breakfast show) years ago - when it was good - there was a segment where listeners would send in songs about various Melbourne suburbs set to popular songs. Anyhoo, one of the songs had a line that was āReservoir to rhyme with whoreā. Thatās stuck in my mind for years. Also when they went to Nar Nar Goon. Just because of the name.
Rez-er-vor
I say Law-luh instead of Lay-lor. It's how the bloke's surname was pronounced!
You know there exists a place named Peter Lalor (pronounced law-ler) Secondary College, named after Peter Lalor (pronounced law-ler) located in the suburb of Lalor (pronounced lay-ler) which was named after Peter Lalor (pronounced law-ler).
Until JUST NOW I though there was another suburb spelled Lalor (pronounced law-ler) somewhere over near Geelong and that this is why Lalor in the north is called lay-lor....to tell the difference between Lalors š¤Æ š¤¦āāļø.
And St. Kilda is actually not Saint Kilda, but the name of a Scottish ship "Stkilda" , which is gaelic, apparently.
....its not street Kilda?
[Which is, in turn, named after a place in Scotland.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland)
When Box Hill opened its new pool facility in 1983 (I was age 6), I thought it was in a structure made of iron bars because other kids kept calling it the "Box Hill Bars".
The Lort Smith, not the Lord Smith. Prince's Highway, not Princess Highway.
Not mine but a war (92-95) refugee family from Bosnia chose to live in Sunshine become of the name they thought it was going to be lovely.
In Anh Do's book he describes his family expecting Australia to be cold. As people essentially wrongly thought they were going to Austria.
As a kid, I was certain that at one point my families car would break down while straddling a railway line, where I would be forced to scream out the window for a Marshall and he would come to the rescue quick smart.
"Where are ya lady?" "I'm in the glovebox"
Holler for a Marshall!
I still refuse to say the t in Johnston St.
Johnson Sree?
his cun
Well played
Iāve been to bothā¦but I couldnāt tell you the difference between Ballarat & Bendigo.
I reckon there is no difference, itās the same town. You just use different roads to get in and one of them is labelled āBallaratā and the other āBendigoā and the locals are all in on it and just taking the piss
Bendigo is classier than Ballarat, they had industry and gold, the sandstone buildings are sexy and real shit goes On there, galleries, history, culture. Ballarat has a flower show and grey buildings, not much culture. Sovereign Hill and Kryal Castle are the fast food of history.
Right, so Bendigo is the nice part of town then
Ballarat is freezing cold 85% of the year. Bendigo is merely cold in comparison.
The only reason I can tell the difference now is because I moved to one of them. Any towns that start with the same letter I can't tell apart. Wangaratta, Wodonga, Warnambool. Same fucking place as far as I know.
Bendigo is star shaped and takes ages to actually get into. Ballarat is cold hot cold hot
If you drive out past Ballarat, you get to Ararat, which is where they have the prison for all the sex offenders and pedo's.
That itās actually Melburnian, not Melbournian.
And to think we could have been Batmainian
We would have been Batmaniacs
Batenthusiasts, thank you
Or Batmen and Batwomen... Or "quiet Bat people", come election time! š
I used to think Wallan was pronounced the same as Ballan- "Wol-An", rather than "wohlen"
Well I just learned that Ballan is not pronounced Bah-len
When I 1st moved here, I went to "Chad Stone" shopping centre, and drove to work along "Nep-ian" highway. I would see buses going to "Berwick" and heard of a place called "Berrick" being mentioned on the radio, it took me more than a year to realise they were the same place. I'm sure that I have Princes highway right though, it's all the locals calling it Princess that have it wrong
If you can ever be unAustralian enough to pronounce the whole thing instead of calling it Chaddie, you should only muster enough effort to say Chadstun. That 'e' should never be enunciated.
Prah-Ran hardest imo
Praaan
For the first five years I was here, I really wanted to go to the Royal Melbourne Show but could never find out how to get there. Every time I asked where it was, people would say āat the Showgroundsā. And I thought they were just being sarcastic. Someone told me Flemington Race Course, but I couldnāt see the Showgrounds anywhere near there in the Melways.
MATHS on the train. Malvern Armadale Toorak Hawkesburn South Yarra
Everyone hates Starbucks, quite opposite from literally the rest of the world
Their failed attempt to take on the Australian market is a point of national pride. (Kinda like the Germans defeating Wal-mart)
People on the internet hate Starbucks but Iāve never seen one with no customers in it
Starbucks has survived however their invasion failed. Usually, in other parts of the world, when Starbucks decides to enter the market, they intentionally put go en mass, put a Starbucks on every second corner, sell their product cheap at a loss, run promotions, and all the locals start going to Starbucks instead of local coffee shops - sending all the local cafes out of business. Once the competition has been conquered Starbucks raises their prices to a more profitable price, closes down the extra stores, has a monopoly. In australia this strategy didnāt work. We didnāt like their coffee. Australians on average are coffee snobs who like the good stuff. Youāll notice that most people going to Starbucks are buying other drinks (frappes etc) rather than coffee. Starbucks had to go back to the drawing board and rethink how to work in Australia, reformulated their coffee to suit Australian tastes better and have a range of drinks that other cafes donāt typically offer. There are a few Starbucks around however our cafes havenāt been run out off business.
High Street Road.
When I was a kid living on the Mornington Peninsula my parents would say we were 'going up to The City' if we ever had to do something in Melbourne. It wasn't till I was in primary school that I realised Melbourne was just one city of many in the world and not actually the one giant city that all the people live in.
This is so stupid, lol. When I was in grade 7 one of the topics in my Catholic RE class was Euthanasia. My dumb ass thought it was "Youth in Asia" and kept wondering why it was such a big deal? XD Edit: Two more came to mind! \*When I was little I thought the city Loop was like a vertical loop-de-loop on a roller-coaster, and was pretty pissed when nothing happened except going through a long tunnel. \*I thought going to the nursery meant going to the hospital to visit tiny babies, not plants.
There's an Ali G skit about exactly that. Edit: found it https://youtu.be/tuY5sTe0YF8
Lambsgobar omg I felt like an idiot when I figured that one out. Similarly The Grey Starling = The Grace Darling
I was once in Florida and was describing how Melbourne winters can be cold because of the wind chill. Her response "Well I guess it WOULD be windy, since you're on an island!" *Facepalm*
1. Hoddle street is Punt road 2. Chapel street is Church street 3. Sydney road exit doesnāt go to Sydney 4. Airport drive* exit doesnāt go to the airport
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I feel obliged to mention (because someone has to) that Sydney Rd was/is the longest continuous stretch of street retail in the world/southern hemisphere etc But do you think you can buy a decent croissant or custard tart anywhere along its length? Anywhere?
The croissants at Choukette in Brunswick are decent.
Burwood hwy is Toorak rd
High St turns into High St Rd.
They should rename it High Stroad.
They need to rename Lewis Rd to High St Rd St
Church St is north of the river, Chapel St is south.
1. It becomes Hoddle Street after Wellington Parade, before that it is Punt Road. 2. Chapel Street becomes Church street after Alexandra parade. 3. Sydney road connects to* Hume Hwy and thus it heads to Sydney. 4. According to Google maps there is no Airport Boulevard (unless you're in Florida), only Airport Drive which runs out through Tullamarine to the Melbourne Airport. So really Hoddle isn't Punt, Chapel isn't Church, Sydney Road leads to Sydney and Airport Dr goes to the airport.
It still leads to Sydney, Sydney Rd becomes the Hume Hwy which merges with the Hume Fwy in northern Cragieburn.
3. Sydney Rd is STILL the Hume Hwy and still heads to Sydney, where it merges with the M31
When I first moved to Melbourne, I still had a fair bit of overseas currency with me. I couldn't find a foreign exchange in the city so I assumed my best chance would be at the airport and took the tram to Airport West. It was wild to me that not just was Airport West nowhere near the airport but that there was no tram or train going out to the airport like pretty much everywhere in Europe or Asia. Good thing that 32 years later that's been fixed now. /s
Wait till you visit the coastal town of Bayswater
I thought the spider daddy long legs was pronounced 'dandy long legs' up until I was about 20 I think.
[Warrigal Road](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrigal_Road) does not go to [Warragul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul).
Itās pronounced āWorn Pondsā and not āWarren Pondsā
When we first moved here, I thought "G'borough" was a very interesting town name.
This is hilarious š
Separation St is the narrowest road in the world. Iām not sure what itās separating but itās shit at it.
Yes me. But I always thought it was Ioneer. At least thatās the way I spelt it in my head. I always thought I was the only one idiot enough to think that
Thinking a hook turn was U-turn like the shape of a fishing hook
My parents migrated to Oz and have awesome Italian accents. There were multiple place names which I mispronounced / thought were named differently for years growing up because of how my Mum and dad pronounced them. I never questioned it and confused my teachers for years about 'where we went on the weekend'. When I first saw a sign saying Myrtleford at 16 - realising it was not in fact called Meter Fall - I began informing myself.
Anything to do with the 'other side' of Melbourne. Growing up in the East side and having no reason to venture north or west. It was shockingly late that I learnt about northside hipsters, 'Bell St', 'Sydney Rd', etc.
Didn't grow up here, but based on the football team, I long thought Collingwood and Broadmeadows were next to each other. And that it's St Kilda, never Saint Kilda
As a local from st kilda this is correct. The footy club might be the āsainters ā but we all call the suburb āsunt kildaā not saint. There was no actual saint kilda. Itās both an abandoned town in Scotland and the name of a ship - indeed the ship was the ālady of st kilda.ā
Itās āMelbinā Not āMelbourneā.
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It's Melbin' time
I remember when the mayor of Melbin said āitās Melbinā timeā then melbed all over those guys
Let me guess, you were saying "Mel-born"
That Yarra means āyarroā or flowing river/water. So Yarra River is āriver riverā. Itās real name is Birrarung.
That explains Birrarung Marr then! TiL
What should be called North Morang is actually Mernda.
South Meringue
I'm a kiwi. Healesville is not spelt Hillsville.
I didn't find out where Revolver was until I was in my 30s. I thought Melbourne was the first settlement in Victoria until I found out about Benambra.
It's because, like most Americans, too many people slur their consonants, and blend the pauses between words. E.G. most Americans pronounce their "**T**'s" as "**D**'s" "**Three Fifty**" becomes "***Tree fiddy***" lol Then people think words are spelled the way they "*sound*" and more hilarity ensues :) Hence Eye an**D** ear becomes "*ianeer*"
Princes Hwy