I would like to challenge
all those who are criticising people for their pronunciation of place names that are foreign to them to try the following:
* Woolloomooloo
* Kakadu
* Wollongong
* Scone (tell me how it's pronounced differently to 'scone', as in the thing you eat)
* Stawell
* Watanobi
* Wagga Wagga
* Cairns
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 12:20, archived)

They're just pronounced exactly as they read, aren't they?
Apart from Wagga Wagga. We've got family there and you look a bit foolish if you say both Waggas.
( Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 12:23, archived)

Half of it is locals being stupid.
Milngavie pronounced Mul-guy? Slaithwaite pronounced Sluthut? Arses the lot of them.
( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 12:28, archived)

Woolloomooloo
Kakadu
Wollongong
Scone
Stawell
Watanobi
Wagga Wagga
Cairns

Easy!
(MSB Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Fire., Fri 8 Jul 2005, 12:29, archived)