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Old 15-04-2011, 10:33 PM   #1
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well after reading through a thread today about 48÷2(9+3)

it reminded me of some pointless i had to ask.
wel had some boys from aussie come over and stay in our hostel they were in my younger brothers year.

Well they hit us all up about the pronounciation of bathurst.

we all called it bath-thirst
he said bath-thist

i know its pointless but when we came over to bathurst everyone pronounced it like we did.

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Old 15-04-2011, 10:39 PM   #2
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bath hurst

bath isnt like what you wash in, that would be pronounced barth, its like BAT with a H on the on

hurst as in hurst shifters
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Old 15-04-2011, 10:41 PM   #3
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My dad used to live there a a kid and he always pronounced it BAT -THST
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Old 15-04-2011, 10:45 PM   #4
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sweet yea and i say bath hurst sounds the same as bath thirst (as in thirsty)
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Old 15-04-2011, 10:47 PM   #5
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What 99AUXR & Big Cav said.

Bath-hurst.

Or Ba-thurst
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Old 15-04-2011, 10:49 PM   #6
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What 99AUXR & Big Cav said.

Bath-hurst.

Or Ba-thurst
yes answered my own OP

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Old 15-04-2011, 11:06 PM   #7
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The answer is Bathust. Bath like Path in Pathologist.

Next one will be Newcastle. Castlemaine or Launceston. Speaking of which, anyone visited Condobolin or Canowindra recently?
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Old 15-04-2011, 11:18 PM   #8
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Forget Newcastle, whats the proper pronunciation for Melbourne?
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Old 15-04-2011, 11:22 PM   #9
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I was annoyed watching Top Gear apparently mince Barth-Hurst but, unknown to me at the time, the area was named as Bathurst after a Lord (who's name was pronounced Barth-Hurst).

We've Australianised it to Bathust but now I'll accept either. :P
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Old 15-04-2011, 11:27 PM   #10
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What 99AUXR & Big Cav said.

Bath-hurst.

Or Ba-thurst
I live in Bathurst but pronounce it very differently...

Mount Pan-Oh-Rah-Mah

Otherwise, yours is the closest... hehe
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Old 15-04-2011, 11:30 PM   #11
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Bat thrust
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Old 15-04-2011, 11:56 PM   #12
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I've always pronounced it as Bath-ist
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Old 16-04-2011, 12:19 AM   #13
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I've always pronounced it as Bath-ist
same.

how do you guys pronounce towns like Cockburn ?
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Old 16-04-2011, 12:19 AM   #14
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from vic, pronounce it..

bath-hurst
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Old 16-04-2011, 12:28 AM   #15
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yea the guy was from orange went to a school called kinross wolaroi school and he said bath-ist
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Old 16-04-2011, 01:02 AM   #16
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My guess would be the original pronunciation was Ba-thurst, then as the aussie accent developed, it turned to Ba-th'st. If we pronounced it the way the Brit's do, it's different again. Barth-urst is what they say.

Regarding the pronunciation of Melbourne, i've always said Melb'n. Any other way sounds very American.
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Isn't it Baf est?
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yep. if you dont say melbn you arent aussie.
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I've always pronounced it as Bath-ist
Yeah i lived there until recently and Thats how i say it. Would drive me mad when people say it like an American
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Yeah i lived there until recently and Thats how i say it. Would drive me mad when people say it like an American
till the day i die thats how its said but with an emphisis on the A so your not sayinf bath (tub) and if you say it any different when your there you will be sledged
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Oh great, now we have Kiwi's telling us how to pronounce towns (unfortunately he's correct )

What's next. Seppo's giving us elocution lessons?
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How about MONARO? If it's the car, it's pronounced mon-air-o, but if it's the highway, it's mon-are-o.
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im thinking the second option on both.
never heard it as mon-air-o
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how do you guys pronounce towns like Cockburn ?
Co-burn. Named after the Earl of Cockburn or some other colonial rubbish.

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im thinking the second option on both.
never heard it as mon-air-o
I've never heard people say the car "Mon-air-ro" just Mon-are-o but I have heard political commentators referring to the seat of Eden-Monaro as Mon-air-ro
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yea the guy was from orange went to a school called kinross wolaroi school and he said bath-ist
Explains it all! :P /facepalm

Everyone I know say it like Ba-thist, but quite quickly, unlike when you hear the Kiwis or anyone else say it...

"Baaaaaa"thuuuuuuurrrrrst
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Isn't it Baf est?
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Everyone I know say it like Ba-thist, but quite quickly, unlike when you hear the Kiwis or anyone else say it...

"Baaaaaa"thuuuuuuurrrrrst
I'm with you!

I think its Craig Lowndes who says it with the long "thurst" - I just don't understand where these crazy's come from!

My theory is Victorians say Baaaaathuuuuurrssttt and the normal NSW folk say Ba-thist...
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Yes, normal, that's it.

The crux of the matter is, who really cares?
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Northerners in England would pronounce Bath-urst, if your a southerner it would be Barth-hurst. You can go 20mins down the road in England and have a completely different accent and way of pronouncing things.

Us Brits could get funny about the QLD Maroons. lol, Theres no "W", yet you pronounced it with one. Its Mar-roon not Mar-rown. You get Kangaroo and moon right though, for some reason you dont see fit to add a "W" to the double "O". Why not Kang-ga-row or Moan.
Debut is also not De-boo, its Day-bue.

Its all in good fun though.

lol the Yanks go all out on changing it up though.
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Next one will be Newcastle.?
I pronounce Newcastle as New-carstle.

As for Bathurst I've always said Bath-ist.
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