> > Which does nothing but demand the joke about the Texan being showed a
> > station [~=AmE ranch] in Australia.
>
>I hope I'm not the only one that tried to figure out how [~=AmEranch] was
>supposed to be pronounced, and how the Australians could mangle the word
>'station' so badly...
Drat. You mean Aussies don't use a borrowed Aboriginal word which begins
with a nasalized centralized [A]?
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