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OldGoatee
05-04-2005, 05:22 PM
OK, Aussie mates. How do you pronounce it? Is it "muh-nair-rho"? Or is it "mo-nahr-ro"? I mean, I don't want to sound like a pommie, do I? :gr_devil:



craigD
05-04-2005, 05:35 PM
OK, Aussie mates. How do you pronounce it? Is it "muh-nair-rho"? Or is it "mo-nahr-ro"? I mean, I don't want to sound like a pommie, do I? :gr_devil:
I think it's the second one.......
isszy
05-04-2005, 05:43 PM
'Mon', as in how a West indian would pronounce 'Man' ('hey mon'), or as in the start of 'Monday'
'Are' as in 'how are you' or the letter 'R'
'Oh' as in 'D'oh!'
Ozzie Goat
05-04-2005, 05:49 PM
Howzit, Isszy?

Good Thursday morning.
Kiwi Jack
05-04-2005, 11:06 PM
This is the correct way to say it.

MON, as in DON
NAR, as in CAR
ROW, as in BRO

MON-NAR-ROW

"Monaro"
AnthonyHSV
05-04-2005, 11:38 PM
This is the correct way to say it.

MON, as in DON
NAR, as in CAR
ROW, as in BRO

MON-NAR-ROW

"Monaro"


Does the multimedia section still have the Monaro "Game Over" and "Lion King" ads??
GMH GTO
05-05-2005, 12:29 AM
And aussies prononce camaro "cam-ar-row" in similar sence.

MO-NAR-ROW is pretty right as Kiwi Jack wrote. Monaro is an aboriginal word for flat plane or plateau; and is also Monaro NSW. Torana is aboriginal "to fly", Maloo is aboriginal for "thunder"
isszy
05-05-2005, 01:35 AM
And aussies prononce camaro "cam-ar-row" in similar sence.

MO-NAR-ROW is pretty right as Kiwi Jack wrote. Monaro is an aboriginal word for flat plane or plateau; and is also Monaro NSW. Torana is aboriginal "to fly", Maloo is aboriginal for "thunder"

Correctamondo.

I have always favoured the theory that Monaro was the Aboriginal word for a female breast. Wrong, but much more interesting.

The Monaro Plains in NSW translate as the Plain Plains :judge:
Eldodroptop
05-05-2005, 01:35 AM
This is America, we shall call it MOE NAIR O..... Just like we pronounce Jag WAR... Not Jag U waure...
isszy
05-05-2005, 01:39 AM
http://vauxhall.co.uk/showroom/search/brandPages/m onaro/movieLaunch.jhtml?format=QuicktimeHQ

this is correct
kong
05-05-2005, 03:01 AM
You say Com-airo, I say Com-ahro,
You say Mon-airo, I say Mon-ahro,
Com-airo,Com-ahro,
Mon-airo,Mon-ahro,
Let's call the whole thing...GTO! :gr_devil:
Ford Falcon driver
05-05-2005, 03:21 AM
OK, Aussie mates. How do you pronounce it? Is it "muh-nair-rho"? Or is it "mo-nahr-ro"? I mean, I don't want to sound like a pommie, do I? :gr_devil:

I've heard both used, so it kind of depends exactly where you're from.

The Monaro name was taken directly from the Monaro region of NSW. The story is that an engineer working on the program in the 1960s was passing though the town of Cooma and saw a sign for the Monaro County Council, and liked the sound of the name. GM even filmed the original 1960s commercial near there in the Snowy Mountains, which are about a 30 min drive to the west. Australia's highest mountain (all 7,000 ft of it), Mount Kosciuszko, is in the "Snowies" and the commercial was filmed near by.

Interestingly enough, locals in the region pronounce it "Mon-air-ro"
Fusebox
05-05-2005, 03:50 AM
I've heard both used, so it kind of depends exactly where you're from.

The Monaro name was taken directly from the Monaro region of NSW. The story is that an engineer working on the program in the 1960s was passing though the town of Cooma and saw a sign for the Monaro County Council, and liked the sound of the name. GM even filmed the original 1960s commercial near there in the Snowy Mountains, which are about a 30 min drive to the west. Australia's highest mountain (all 7,000 ft of it), Mount Kosciuszko, is in the "Snowies" and the commercial was filmed near by.

Interestingly enough, locals in the region pronounce it "Mon-air-ro"


I went to school in Cooma :) Would have done highschool at Monaro High School, had we not moved upto Sydney.
Ford Falcon driver
05-05-2005, 03:55 AM
I went to school in Cooma :) Would have done highschool at Monaro High School, had we not moved upto Sydney.

Well then, we were practically neighbours. I grew up in small Snowy Mountains Hydro townships in the area.
gto_in_nc
05-05-2005, 05:45 AM
Soft emphasis on the second syllable, right?
Ford Falcon driver
05-05-2005, 12:30 PM
Soft emphasis on the second syllable, right?

Yep, whichever way you pronounce it there is a soft emphasis on the second syllable.
Fusebox
05-06-2005, 06:19 PM
Well then, we were practically neighbours. I grew up in small Snowy Mountains Hydro townships in the area.

Serious!? .... small world eh :)
Ford Falcon driver
05-06-2005, 11:47 PM
Serious!? .... small world eh :)

Yep, serious. Mostly at Khancoban, on the Western side of the Great Dividing range, which is home to the M1 and M2 power stations, Geehi resevoir and......well, not much else.
WEDJ
05-07-2005, 03:42 AM
You say Com-airo, I say Com-ahro,
You say Mon-airo, I say Mon-ahro,
Com-airo,Com-ahro,
Mon-airo,Mon-ahro,
Let's call the whole thing...GTO! :gr_devil:

Funny, I was thinking this as I was scrolling down the posts, and about the whole pot-ae-to, pot-ah-to song.

Good tune writing!