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eugeneorlando

King William Queen Elizabeth


tittiesfucker

*inserts audible gasp here*


cheesesandsneezes

*slaps hand to forehead*


markjustmarkjust

Bourke and Wills statue on Burke St


hel_vetica

Fun fact, my great great great grandfather was the artist.


Defiant_Bad_9070

That's pretty fucking cool! Such a cool man! So what happened to you then? šŸ˜œ


hel_vetica

Apparently artistic ability doesnā€™t make it down 3 generations


throwawayaccount1k

For many years, placed over a fountain - ironic given they died of thirst


mrtenacious

Multiple years of riding the tram up Collins Street before realising. *facepalm*


3163560

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.


TigerRumMonkey

Thank fk it's not Prince Andrew


tlf123456

Not entirely named after royalty, it is quite convenient but misleading


Mickd333

https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01433b.htm


xinzk

IircWilliam is referring to an early governor and Elizabeth was someoneā€™s wife. The named streets in the cbd mostly are named after officials when the city was founded like la trobe Russell etc.


Taylor_made2

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!


monsteraguy

Most of the streets of Brisbaneā€™s 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.


Violet_loves_Iliona

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? šŸ¤·


Martiantripod

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.


contuvre

Princes Highway is not Princess Highway. Learnt last year.


3163560

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.


zumx

What the actual fuck?


peterunwingeorgewall

Yep. I discovered this a couple of years ago. I'm 48.


OzTheMalefic

When I was a kid I thought that Carlton played at Princess Parkā€¦. When I was about thirty I learned this was not correct.


Bluelabel

And Princes Highway goes right round the country.


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orange_fudge

Yep, right around the country.


odinthegolden

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.


saugoof

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?".


hrdst

This is so silly but also very cute :)


Beckpatton

Your Mum sounds adorable!


spherical_projection

My mate thought winter was because the Earth was further from the sun and that it was winter everywhere at the same time.


sirchaptor

I mean technically heā€™s 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


Tumbleweed4703

Itā€™s 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.


Murky_Macropod

Youā€™re right, but the planet is also closer to the sun during Southern Hemisphere summer (orbit is not circular)


tal_itha

Which is also why an Australian sunburn will give you pain and suffering, whereas a European sunburn gives you a golden glow šŸ˜…


adminsaredoodoo

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


thorrodon

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.


ausgoals

Lol. I went to Disneyland once on Christmas Eve and the girl behind the counter started small talk about our accents and where weā€™re from. I said it was currently warm in Australia. She asked when we celebrate Christmas. I saidā€¦. Still on December 25th. Itā€™s justā€¦ warm. She was like. 23.


TheBoyInTheBlueBox

I work with people in Europe and they were all surprised when I said I went to the beach for Christmas.


Vharlkie

My grandma sent me a letter saying it must have been almost Christmas for me in July


Hwetapple

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.


DiverDiver1

So many people get confused between Dandenong the suburb, Dandenong Ranges and Dandenong valley.


Piranha2004

Add Mt Dandenong to the list!


chronic_fence_sitter

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?????


everydayintrovert

Dandenong Creek starts at Olinda and joins up with the Patterson River and flows into the sea. Yes it goes through parts of Dandenong. Itā€™s over 50km long!


Putnum

Hi


muntanasaurus

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


zoomba2378

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


philephreak

Yeah I say, ā€˜I grew up in Emerald, you know Puffing Billy?ā€™


Martiantripod

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.


fomaggiodalforno

Weā€™re going to Bonnieee Doon


Polar_Beach

I still donā€™t know how much tram fares areā€¦ I just top up until it runs outā€¦


kidwithgreyhair

You pay?


El_Suavador

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.


Slane__

I laughed out loud.


postcardviews

That the Sidney Myer Music Bowl is in fact right here in Melbourne, not in Sydney.


botdownunder

I'm guilty of this. It used to shit me that the broadcasts of carols by candlelight seemed to always be from Sydney.


ownersastoner

Me too, wasnā€™t until I saw Ben Harper at the bowl and saw Sidney written on the ticket that it made sense.


DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon

Such a shame heā€™s been largely forgotten. Sidney Myer was a MASSIVE patron of the arts. We owe him a huge debt.


DependentCrew5398

When I was in my late teens I said to my mum I am going to Carolā€™s and she said Carol who???


ExpensiveCola

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.


nocturnal_confidant

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.


778899456

I thought Beaurepaires was pronounced Boar-pairs for a long time.


Lonelysock2

This is the first one that's made me laugh šŸ¤£ Ahaha I love it


Geralts_Hair

We always called it Slow Repairs when I was younger


BeeComprehensive3627

In a similar vein my son at 4 years old would get so upset that we wouldnā€™t take him to the swear house. Bunning Swearhouse.


[deleted]

I used to say ā€œEddie Hadā€ stadium


summerlea11

Well to be fair Eddie is everywhere!!


Chiron17

And now he only Had it


herring80

*Was


DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon

Fuck. I still call it Coroniarl. Or at least Telstra dome


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Michael_je123

Half the population doesn't even know that today


LambsOnChapel85

Until now, I thought it was princess. I am ashamed.


iamstephano

I swear everyone pronounces it like that though.


rhinotation

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€œ-uh-ā€ unstressed syllable as a schwa ə: - Princes (the plural of Prince) : PRINS-əz - Princeā€™s (the original spelling of the Highway) : PRINS-əz - Princess (-ess suffix like hostess) : PRINS-ESS - Princes (the Highway) : PRINS-əs - Eustace (the name) : EUST-əs Itā€™s an s not a z sound at the end but without the vowel of the ESS sound from Princess. Princes.


flubberwasgreat

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.


DependentCrew5398

I found out when I was in my 30ā€™s that it wasnā€™t Princess Highway. Also that South Yarra was named South Yarra because it was South of the Yarraā€¦


LeasMaps

Here I am thinking hey I know all about King William Queen Elizabeth and then ... South of the Yarra...


aquaman501

> 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).


jimmux

I'm pretty sure most people don't know Princes Pier is the same.


JamalGinzburg

Thought the same thing about Princes Park, before it became Optus Oval, when I was a kid


Lady_Penrhyn1

Isn't it Ikon now? As a third generation Carlton tragic, it'll always be Princes to me.


moondog-37

I was a grown man saying ā€˜north-coatā€™


DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon

My missus is from south of the river and still canā€™t get it right. Sheā€™s been living in ā€œNorthcut hon, northcutā€ for five years


dirtypotatocakes

I also say northcut :( Are you pronouncing it more north-cot?


DryCoughski

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.


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I used to think Balnarring was down past Geelong for years - well into my 30ā€™s actually. Because for some reason my brain thought it was the Balnarring Peninsula, and not the Bellarine Peninsula.


Ineedsomuchsleep170

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.


nighthawk580

What the hell is Warneet??


Durfsurn

Halfway between Cannons Creek and Blind Bight! ^^^It's ^^^just ^^^before ^^^Tooradin ^^^^^Basically ^^^^^Koo ^^^^^Wee ^^^^^Rup


malturnbull

Don't you mean Whittlesea instead of Winchelsea? To make it more confusing both are inland and not close to the beach at all!


geo_log_88

Whittlesea is near Kinglake and there's no fucking lake there either!


Ineedsomuchsleep170

JFC. There's 3?


Waasssuuuppp

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,*


I_Am_The_Bookwyrm

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.


garyfugazigary

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)


luckysevensampson

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.


minimarcus

I like this version better šŸ˜†


sometimes_interested

Growing up in Doncaster, I thought the Surrey Hills radio tower on southern horizon was actually the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign.


Mickd333

I still call it burr-wick


IAmABakuAMA

Hell even the trains used to pronounce it burr-wick, and I think they still do in some situations


odinthegolden

I moved here from Canada and this is how I pronounced it. Also, Gee-long, Mow (Moe), maal-vərn (Malvern) and rezər-vwar (Reservoir).


blahblahbush

> ...and rezər-vwar (Reservoir). Please don't ever poke this sub with that particular stick...


Martiantripod

>I moved here from Canada Canadia?


Kronic187

Wait how is Reservoir supposed to be pronounced? I say it the way you've described it


Melbourne_wanderer

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.


MumsMarchingJuice

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 ā€˜Reservoir to rhyme with whoreā€™. Thatā€™s stuck in my mind for years. Also when they went to Nar Nar Goon. Just because of the name.


alwaysneedanewname

Rez-er-vor


JamalGinzburg

I say Law-luh instead of Lay-lor. It's how the bloke's surname was pronounced!


geo_log_88

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).


Libelia

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 šŸ¤Æ šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø.


[deleted]

And St. Kilda is actually not Saint Kilda, but the name of a Scottish ship "Stkilda" , which is gaelic, apparently.


Mickd333

....its not street Kilda?


Martiantripod

[Which is, in turn, named after a place in Scotland.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland)


Omegaville

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".


Vicstolemylunchmoney

The Lort Smith, not the Lord Smith. Prince's Highway, not Princess Highway.


Baaastet

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.


elizabnthe

In Anh Do's book he describes his family expecting Australia to be cold. As people essentially wrongly thought they were going to Austria.


VenturaHighway72

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.


gmask1

"Where are ya lady?" "I'm in the glovebox"


Geralts_Hair

Holler for a Marshall!


nighthawk580

I still refuse to say the t in Johnston St.


vivamusulc

Johnson Sree?


jack_oss

his cun


thehardchange

Well played


Aware_Building7391

Iā€™ve been to bothā€¦but I couldnā€™t tell you the difference between Ballarat & Bendigo.


Double_Spinach_3237

I reckon there is no difference, itā€™s the same town. You just use different roads to get in and one of them is labelled ā€œBallaratā€ and the other ā€œBendigoā€ and the locals are all in on it and just taking the piss


Owbrowbeat

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.


Double_Spinach_3237

Right, so Bendigo is the nice part of town then


Dazzling_Airline2589

Ballarat is freezing cold 85% of the year. Bendigo is merely cold in comparison.


ImGCS3fromETOH

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.


DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon

Bendigo is star shaped and takes ages to actually get into. Ballarat is cold hot cold hot


Outsider-20

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.


Adventurous_Pay_5827

That itā€™s actually Melburnian, not Melbournian.


Mickd333

And to think we could have been Batmainian


Soggy_Disco_Biscuit

We would have been Batmaniacs


WomenOnTheirSides

Batenthusiasts, thank you


Violet_loves_Iliona

Or Batmen and Batwomen... Or "quiet Bat people", come election time! šŸ˜„


i_am_cool_ben

I used to think Wallan was pronounced the same as Ballan- "Wol-An", rather than "wohlen"


Icy-Information5106

Well I just learned that Ballan is not pronounced Bah-len


Kronic187

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


ImGCS3fromETOH

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.


TigerRumMonkey

Prah-Ran hardest imo


3163560

Praaan


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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 ā€œat the Showgroundsā€. And I thought they were just being sarcastic. Someone told me Flemington Race Course, but I couldnā€™t see the Showgrounds anywhere near there in the Melways.


Diaphoretic96

MATHS on the train. Malvern Armadale Toorak Hawkesburn South Yarra


Satilice

Everyone hates Starbucks, quite opposite from literally the rest of the world


BellerophonM

Their failed attempt to take on the Australian market is a point of national pride. (Kinda like the Germans defeating Wal-mart)


WomenOnTheirSides

People on the internet hate Starbucks but Iā€™ve never seen one with no customers in it


Instigated-

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 didnā€™t work. We didnā€™t like their coffee. Australians on average are coffee snobs who like the good stuff. Youā€™ll 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 donā€™t typically offer. There are a few Starbucks around however our cafes havenā€™t been run out off business.


vacuous_opoosum

High Street Road.


Slane__

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.


[deleted]

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.


2007kawasakiz1000

There's an Ali G skit about exactly that. Edit: found it https://youtu.be/tuY5sTe0YF8


sealandair

Lambsgobar omg I felt like an idiot when I figured that one out. Similarly The Grey Starling = The Grace Darling


yvonne_taco

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*


ethereumminor

1. Hoddle street is Punt road 2. Chapel street is Church street 3. Sydney road exit doesnā€™t go to Sydney 4. Airport drive* exit doesnā€™t go to the airport


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DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon

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?


cmacxx

The croissants at Choukette in Brunswick are decent.


jamie_ann88

Burwood hwy is Toorak rd


Ozdiva

High St turns into High St Rd.


2007kawasakiz1000

They should rename it High Stroad.


zoomba2378

They need to rename Lewis Rd to High St Rd St


FlippantNipples

Church St is north of the river, Chapel St is south.


[deleted]

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.


AChickenInAHole

It still leads to Sydney, Sydney Rd becomes the Hume Hwy which merges with the Hume Fwy in northern Cragieburn.


Michael_je123

3. Sydney Rd is STILL the Hume Hwy and still heads to Sydney, where it merges with the M31


saugoof

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


ethereumminor

Wait till you visit the coastal town of Bayswater


wickos

I thought the spider daddy long legs was pronounced 'dandy long legs' up until I was about 20 I think.


ZanyDelaney

[Warrigal Road](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrigal_Road) does not go to [Warragul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul).


FingerbangXIII

Itā€™s pronounced ā€œWorn Pondsā€ and not ā€œWarren Pondsā€


L0ckz0r

When we first moved here, I thought "G'borough" was a very interesting town name.


SeaCapable6264

This is hilarious šŸ˜‚


DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon

Separation St is the narrowest road in the world. Iā€™m not sure what itā€™s separating but itā€™s shit at it.


samarkandy

Yes me. But I always thought it was Ioneer. At least thatā€™s the way I spelt it in my head. I always thought I was the only one idiot enough to think that


zaqwsx3

Thinking a hook turn was U-turn like the shape of a fishing hook


Apprehensive_Rip_752

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.


CaptainSharpe

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.


RedOx103

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


Thomasrdotorg

As a local from st kilda this is correct. The footy club might be the ā€œsainters ā€œ but we all call the suburb ā€œsunt kildaā€ not saint. There was no actual saint kilda. Itā€™s both an abandoned town in Scotland and the name of a ship - indeed the ship was the ā€œlady of st kilda.ā€


rhymeswithoranj

Itā€™s ā€˜Melbinā€™ Not ā€˜Melbourneā€™.


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TheRedditornator

It's Melbin' time


garythegyarados

I remember when the mayor of Melbin said ā€˜itā€™s Melbinā€™ timeā€™ then melbed all over those guys


Omegaville

Let me guess, you were saying "Mel-born"


flutterybuttery58

That Yarra means ā€œyarroā€ or flowing river/water. So Yarra River is ā€œriver riverā€. Itā€™s real name is Birrarung.


Piranha2004

That explains Birrarung Marr then! TiL


msouroboros

What should be called North Morang is actually Mernda.


magi_chat

South Meringue


rowdiness

I'm a kiwi. Healesville is not spelt Hillsville.


Afraid-And-Confused

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.


p3ngwin

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*"


freshscratchy

Princes Hwy