Pronouncing Australian cities: A guide

[Nathan]

When I saw this, it gave me a good laugh.

(don’t take this too seriously, please. Us Australians have lazy accents)

Sydney

Incorrect: SIDE-nee
Correct: SID-nee

Melbourne

Incorrect: MEL-born
Correct: MEL-bin / MEL-ben

Canberra

Incorrect: Can-BARE-a
Correct: CAM-bra (Yes. That’s really how we say it.)

Brisbane

Incorrect: BRIS-bane
Correct: BRIZ-bin / BRIZ-ben

Adelaide

Incorrect: A-DEAL-aid
Correct: ADD-el-aid

Darwin & Perth

Try and f*ck these up, I dare you.

Tasmania

Incorrect: Hobbit
Correct: Hoe-bahht​

 

[Houdinii]

When I saw this, it gave me a good laugh.

(don’t take this too seriously, please. Us Australians have lazy accents)

Sydney

Incorrect: SIDE-nee
Correct: SID-nee

Melbourne

Incorrect: MEL-born
Correct: MEL-bin / MEL-ben

Canberra

Incorrect: Can-BARE-a
Correct: CAM-bra (Yes. That’s really how we say it.)

Brisbane

Incorrect: BRIS-bane
Correct: BRIZ-bin / BRIZ-ben

Adelaide

Incorrect: A-DEAL-aid
Correct: ADD-el-aid

Darwin & Perth

Try and f*ck these up, I dare you.

Tasmania

Incorrect: Hobbit
Correct: Hoe-bahht​

Hahaha that is awesome xd

 

[Vision]

then why spell it so confusing ~~~___~~~

 

[Nathan]

Hahaha that is awesome xd

Indeed. ^^

then why spell it so confusing ~~~___~~~

Not that hard. xD

 

[Sydd]

When I saw this, it gave me a good laugh.

(don’t take this too seriously, please. Us Australians have lazy accents)

Sydney

Incorrect: SIDE-nee
Correct: SID-nee

Melbourne

Incorrect: MEL-born
Correct: MEL-bin / MEL-ben

Canberra

Incorrect: Can-BARE-a
Correct: CAM-bra (Yes. That’s really how we say it.)

Brisbane

Incorrect: BRIS-bane
Correct: BRIZ-bin / BRIZ-ben

Adelaide

Incorrect: A-DEAL-aid
Correct: ADD-el-aid

Darwin & Perth

Try and f*ck these up, I dare you.

Tasmania

Incorrect: Hobbit
Correct: Hoe-bahht​

_O-
I can try. Let's see, Perth - Correct - Pu-r-th(sorry, I don't really write dictionaries_
Incorrect - P-ea-r-th
Did someone annoy you by using the wrong pronounciation??

 

[Nathan]

_O-
I can try. Let's see, Perth - Correct - Pu-r-th(sorry, I don't really write dictionaries_
Incorrect - P-ea-r-th
Did someone annoy you by using the wrong pronounciation??

Lmao.
No, I just this on a site, gave me a good laugh, thought I would share it. xD

 

[Anduril]

lol

I was only able to pronounce Adelaide correctly according to this xD

 

[lubricati0n]

Hahaha.

 

[Majora]

Hm. Imma make a swedish city pronouncing guide x)

 

[Grim]

I can add one more, in sydney beach called bondi is pronounced BON-DY

 

[Nerei]

I can add one more, in sydney beach called bondi is pronounced BON-DY

Lolz, I used to pronounce it Bon-dee Till the TV corrected me. Bondi Beach ^.^

 

[Nathan]

lol

I was only able to pronounce Adelaide correctly according to this xD

Lol, win. ^^

I can add one more, in sydney beach called bondi is pronounced BON-DY

Thank you for that! xD

 

[McKnockout]

haha sounds about right xd
Ive always noticed that Americans say "Mel-born" instead of "Mel-bin", it's kinda irritating lol

 

[RAMENATOR]

haha sounds about right xd
Ive always noticed that Americans say "Mel-born" instead of "Mel-bin", it's kinda irritating lol

Sucks for you then... The State I live in, in the U.S. has a city named Melbourne and you'd get some damn funny looks if you called it Mel-ben. It's just a linguistics difference so try not to get irritated o.o

 

[McKnockout]

Sucks for you then... The State I live in, in the U.S. has a city named Melbourne and you'd get some damn funny looks if you called it Mel-ben. It's just a linguistics difference so try not to get irritated o.o

Yeah, the kind of looks that I give lol.
But yeah, indeed it is. It just sounds weird to me, that's all

 

[RAMENATOR]

Yeah, the kind of looks that I give lol.
But yeah, indeed it is. It just sounds weird to me, that's all

And your pronunciation would sound weird to me because the letters don't match the sound at all xd

 

[Daki Kibe]

Clearly I've been watching far too much Masterchef Australia, since I knew how to say all of those 'the Aussie way'.

 

[Nathan]

Clearly I've been watching far too much Masterchef Australia, since I knew how to say all of those 'the Aussie way'.

Just a little to much.

 

[RekeHavoc]

Awesome, if i didn't learn anything in college today :/ at-least i learned something from Nafy =DD Lol

 

[Finn]

lol nice xd

I could make one of these threads on how to pronounce New Zealand places, but thats practically every place in NZ so I might be pushing my luck on that one

BTW im moving to australia Nafan