[Tagging] Strange tags

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 21:26, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> For local place names they quizzed local people "What do
> you call that?" and that's the name they used on their maps.
>

Quite a number of Australian place- & natural feature (mountain, river etc)
names use Aboriginal words, but, there is no such thing as an Aboriginal
alphabet, as none of the languages (approx 300 - 350) were ever written
down, they were only verbal.

Spelling of these names is now being based on somebody translating what
they think is the correct pronunciation of the appropriate Aboriginal word
into English characters (&, in some cases, using a word that wasn't from
the local language)

Sometimes spelled incorrectly.
>

I have some official maps of our area dating only from the 1960's that show
suburb names spelt differently to what they are today! Which is correct? My
Mum lived in this area most of her life & always pronounced one suburb with
a "p" in the middle of the name, despite no p being in the spelling now,
but it is shown with one on those 1960's maps. Officially, that suburb was
only named (without the p) in 1982, but she knew it since the 1920's.

Thanks

Graeme
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