Milchfrömmler: who don't people say things like they're written here?

Yesterday I was driving to Cowra with big Bruiser the rural reporter and Mum (miss ya already!) to do a story on a Japanese garden (watch my work site - it'll be a corker with a corresponding radio story).

Well I wasn't driving. I was in the passenger seat, but you'll be pleased to know I drove later that day.

I've gotten to the point where I feel I may mispronounce something that I resort to situations like so:

*insert pointing at road sign here*
"Hey Bruiser, how do pronounce that place there? The one 45 kilometres away."

Turns out it was different to how I'd pronounce it. But Bruiser gave me points for trying.

I noticed it again when I was watching the local news and a place that shares its name with a WA town was in the news. I was waiting with baited breath to see how they'd pronounce this one.

Different again. Yuckily different.

So just for the Perthites and other hangers-on I've compiled a list of NSW places names for you to think about how they'd be pronounced. You'll be surprised at how they're actually said.