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awsgc24
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:34 pm
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What railway stations in AU and elsewhere have double names, like Wagga Wagga, NSW?
What about towns with double names. There is a Wagga Wagga in IIRC WA as well.
What about other people, places and things?
What do you call double names?
Is there a single word that describes double names?
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:36 pm
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Woy woy
Wangi wangi
Lang Lang
Lal Lal
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Gwiwer
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:47 pm
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The doubling of Aboriginal-style names might stem from the early days of settlement. It is certainly recorded among the Boonerwurrung people that white men in the early days enquired as to the name of a river flowing into the bay lapping the shores of their lands.
With a complete language barrier between the peoples it has been recorded that the new settlers heard the Boonerwurrung saying "Yarra Yarra" as they pointed at their river.
Now that we have interpretations of those langauges we know that "Yarra" itself means river and the doubling was merely thought to be for emphasis. Melbourne's river has fortunately escaped being named "River River"!
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mattb27j
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:10 pm
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Mooney Mooney - Gosford shire
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SMR30
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:38 pm
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Kurri Kurri
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duttonbay
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:48 pm
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| mattb27j wrote: | | Mooney Mooney - Gosford shire |
Where's the Mooney Mooney railway station?
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TE2815
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:08 pm
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Bong Bong.
143.000 km from Sydney
21-Apr-1878 Opened as Austermere
1-Oct-1889 Renamed Bong Bong
27-Jan-1913 Closed
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PClark
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:28 pm
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Elong Elong (NSW)
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Johnmc
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:32 pm
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Gin Gin (Qld)
And remember, "don't call Wagga Wagga Wagga." 
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David Peters
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:52 pm
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Burra Burra in SA!
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:09 pm
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Walla Walla
Grong Grong
Yeo Yeo
Kiel Kiel
Eurie Eurie
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Thomas the tank engine
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:52 pm
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woop woop!!!! 
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awsgc24
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:08 pm
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| Thomas the tank engine wrote: | | woop woop!!!! |
Excellent contribution, Thomas the Think (sicsic) engine. Woop Woop is a generic place name.
One might add fictious double names.
Also Edward Woodward the actor is kind of a triple version.
Railpagers may trawl widely on this question.
Ah!
Mau Mau the Kenyan indepedence fighters of the 1950s.
PS. Why (sicsic) and not (sic)?
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Thomas the tank engine
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:12 pm
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Yo Yo
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awsgc24
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:22 pm
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| Robot on Lost in Space wrote: |
| TE2815 wrote: | Bong Bong.
143.000 km from Sydney
21-Apr-1878 Opened as Austermere
1-Oct-1889 Renamed Bong Bong
27-Jan-1913 Closed |
This does not complete!
Is Austermere same as Austinmere on Illawarra Line?
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