So is it…
Melburnians or Melbournians?
I’ve always thought Melburnians was the right way to spell it, until someone corrected me over lunch yesterday. It was a good lunch, full of debate.
So which is correct? If Melbournians is right, I’d have a lot of spelling errors to rectify!
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Melburnians. Just do a Goggle search.
Melburnians… I believe there actually is a building by that name along St. Kilda Road.
search my goggles?
melBURN is used in hiphop culture, people associated to hiphop refer to cool or awesome etc as BURNER.. “If someone did a really good graffiti piece they would call it a BURNER”.
Ah?
No, actually it’s officially recognised as Melburnian (check it out on visitvictoria.com)
Melbournians.
Melburnians would mean you pronounce Melbourne as Melburn, yeah?
Ehm…Andrew I take it you’re from North America!? It’s pronounced Mel-burn. Welcome to Earth btw.
And Mel-burn comes out as Mel-bin when said in an Australian accent.
Mel-bin? Then the Aussies can’t speak English then.
Which reminds me, how Kiwis say ‘fush and chups’ when it’s clearly an ‘i’ in the middle is beyond me.
just as aussies’ “mate” sounds more like “mite” is a novelty to non-aussies. It’s just a funny little thing called an “accent”, not so much mispronunciation.
(Unlike Bush’s pronunciation of “nuclear” as “nucular”… where the heck did the extra u come from??)
Bush sees things. Like the WMD in Iraq.
Or winning the next elections.
But you’re forgetting… Bush can make up his own words.
“Nucular” might mean something completely different to “nuclear”, if it’s a totally new word. Like “misunderestimated”, “democracy”, or “patriot”… all completely new concepts coined by Bush…
There’s even an apartment named after my ‘accurate’ spelling.
http://www.themelburnian.com.au/