CAULFIELD CARP

What goose ever says Caul?

Caul Blimey

Mispronounced words, and please, no more.

We're drowning in examples of linguistic lunacy.

Barry, for example, is bald from pulling his hair out at people referring to "Corfield" instead of "Caulfield".

Piss orf, Baldy.

Comments

[Tony]

From the Herald Sun.

[Tony]

It's deye-veye-siv, too. See.

[TKYCraig]

Of course its CORFIELD...
Just like it is NORTHCUT not Northcote.

[Tony]

TK, that's Northc't. Right next to Depreston.

[TKYCraig]

Well... that's what I tried to do, instead of the 'not from Melbourne (Malbun?)' version of Northcoat.

[m0nty]

I am finding it hard not to add an extra syllable to my new suburb, Franco Cozzo style, to wit: Brunswicky.

[Simon]

The same sort of prick who says 'CranBOURNE'.

[TimT]

Good caul.

[Tony]

Necessary caul.

[Tony]

And for the record: it's Melburnian, not Melbournian

[David]

I'm guessing this is from the 'Black and White' section? Barry sounds like a real treasure, but I wonder if he stands up for Yanks who pronounce our northern city 'Bris-bayne', over those uncultured Australians (all 22 million of us) who say "Brisb'n".

[Tony]

Spot on, it was B&W.

I'm not too hard on Yanks who say Bris-bayne since, like Melbourne, they have one of their own.

[Big Ramifications]

For some reason "FITH" bugs the shit out of me. I hear it all the time from professional TV journos.

ie. FITH = FIFTH

But I fear that's getting too much to the "piss orf" side of pedantry. [INSERT STAR WARS REVENGE OF THE SITH QUIP HERE]

[Big Ramifications]

Oh, yeah, and fillin Nine morning weatherman on “Today” [I think he also hosts a kids show - has a weird name like Jai or Kavyen or something] pronounces the First settlement in WA as the American: Awlbany, not the correct Al as in Al Bundy: Albany.

That doesn’t shit me. Go figure. But it does make me scratch my head “how bloody hard is it to get right, do your homework?

Subi-arr-co is another comment eff up you hear from Eastern States TV people.

[RT]

Remember back a fair while watching actor Michael Hordern on Parkinson. Only thing I remember was Sir Mike saying "it really annoys me to the back teeth when people say ishue. It's not ishue, it's issue". Parky leaning back in the chair scratching his nuts. Funny what you remember. Silly old goat probably, I say ishue. Too much effort to say issue and you sound like you should be in a cafe having lattes and puff pastries.

[TimT]

I say ishue. Too much effort to say issue and you sound like you should be in a cafe having lattes and puff pastries.

I could kish you. But probably won't.

[Big Ramifications]

And since the subject is pedantly: "First settlement" shouldn't have a capial F. Dunno how that stuck in.

And "comment eff up" should read "common eff up."

[Big Rammer's mum]

And when I went to school we weren't allowed to start a sentence with "and."

[Big Ramma-langa-ding-dong]

"Snuck" in. Fuck it all.

[fxh]

They say Rese-vwar, You say Resev-or, I say Rezzy

[fxh]

They live at East St Kilda or Off Glenferrie / Hawthorn Road. You live at Caulfield. I'm in Carnegie..

[Adsy]

I live in Marmboyna, by the way. Next door to Carnegie. And not surprisingly to a guy named Poida.

[Tony]

I say Rezzy. Get's me out of all sorts of trouble with the locals.

Used to play footy against Marmboyna. When I played for Tronga-Molev'n.

[Brownie]

I won't waste a second wondering what 'Barry' does with 'Cholmondeley', so I can rush at Biggy ...
"For some reason "FITH" bugs the shit out of me. I hear it all the time from professional TV journos.
ie. FITH = FIFTH"

They would be double-dog stupid then, as where I am, FITH is an acronym ... F**d In The Head.
Could be regionally specific to the 'Rat though.