Names of towns the all the different ones

[Ros20549]

Ros, a good friend of ours hails from Poowong. Always makes me smile when I hear it.


Cheers
Lesley

Hi Lesley I wonder if we know them ??

[Swisslulu]

Stranger things have happened Ros. I think their surname was Rout, my friend is Jillian and she has an older step-sister Betty and an older full sister Helen and her Mum's name was Connie. They had a farm in the Poowong area.


Cheers
Lesley

[Greynomad]

If you're driving from Queanbeyan to Cooma, (funny how we take those names for granted...) and blink half-way, you'll miss Strike-a-Light!

[native pepper]

Bibbenluke, Ando, Cathcart, Niimitabel, glen allen, Nubeena (crayfish), Doo town. there are so many interestingly named places in Aus, it would be great oif we got rid of all the European names and only use indigenous or funky names, we'd probably become a better country, rather than a poor excuse for a European one.

[Dot]

Then I would not know where I lived if I lived in Beaumont.
We could go for funky names such as, junkie drive, stick pin alley, ice street, bludgers drive, etc etc I am proud of my "European" background stuff all this PC BS a name is a name is a name.

[Busman]

I don't think we are a poor excuse for anything, I think this country is unique but I guess some still have the cultural cringe.

[native pepper]

Then I would not know where I lived if I lived in Beaumont.
We could go for funky names such as, junkie drive, stick pin alley, ice street, bludgers drive, etc etc I am proud of my "European" background stuff all this PC BS a name is a name is a name.

Dot my suggestion has nothing to do with PC BS, it has to do with logic, which in many cases is different to how we see and accept things. By funky names, ones that represent the area or individuality of the town, not urban names but unique ones. You could probably call some streets or towns in the country, ice town or street already as that's where it seems to be going.

We deal with people from all over the planet all year round and know many tour guides from Europe and Asia. They comment a lot when organising tours, why we have so many British names that confuse everyone. Of course we are not confused, but some foreigners are, especially Asians who can't understand why they are being taken to St Helens in England, when they are in Tas. Guides trying to explain that can be hilarious to watch. Personally couldn't care less, never been to Europe so can't get confused. Just think our towns would be better if they were named according to their reality, but it's not important in any way. Just making conversation from a lateral aspect.

My reference to poor excuse, was because we are nothing like them, yet a large number of town, street and area names are phonetic replica's of European ones, but nothing like them in any way and a billion times better off.

[SteveW]

I'm happy the way it is. If they weren't English names, mostly, they would have been French, German, Spanish or some such. If the Spanish had taken over first, the indigenous people would all be Christian and everything would be named after a Saint.

[Dot]

French !! then I would have a Street named after me, come to think there is a suburb that has done that already.. "Beaumont" = beautiful mountain

[SteveW]

Sounds better if you interpret it as Mountain Range.