NO “BANE” FOR BRISBANE
ANNOUNCERS SAY BRISB’N Everybody will soon be saying Brisb’n when they refer to the capital of Queensland (says the “Newspaper News”). Announcers on the radio stations have been using the word for some time, and now the public is l expected to followi suit as' a result of an announcement by the Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith). The Lord Mayor (Aid. A. J. Jones) has always called the city Bris-bane. It was this that led to. an informal discussion between a party of leading] Queensland citizens, including the Governor’ (Sir Leslie Wilson), the Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith), the Lord Mayor and others. Tlie Premier reported that while in England he had 1 met a descendant of Sir Thomas Brisbane, who told him that the family name was pronounced Brisb’n. The Premier said that as. the city was called after Sir Thomas Brisbane it naturally followed that the name should be pronounced as his was. “Like a. good Scot,” said' the: Premier, “Sir Thomas must have shortened the word as a form of economy—in much the same way as the ‘e’ is dropped in ‘whisky.’ ”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 14
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187NO “BANE” FOR BRISBANE Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 14
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