YOU understand the city-centric media sometimes mispronouncing some of the more obscure place names from far-flung corners of the state.
Tangambalanga up near Wodonga is tricky to pronounce, while Walpeup could be a challenge for those who didn’t grow up in Mallee.
But surely ABC774 breakfast host Red Symons could manage to spit out Tooradin in the correct manner.
His Monday morning effort of Too-rad-in (with the “rad“ pronounced like bad) was hard to excuse considering the relative simplicity of the name and its proximity to Melbourne.
Just for the record, Red, it’s Toora-din.
It’s hard to imagine him mispronouncing North Fitzroy, St Kilda or any of the other suburbs at the centre of the ABC universe.
