There was a sea from the Cretaceous named after Eromanga, which was about half the size of the Mediterranean, or three times the size of Germany or Japan. So Australian paleontology books can be very silly
Honestly when I say they sound "funny" I mean it in a kind-hearted way. I'm a big language nerd so it's always very cool to see how different languages can sound or impact others etc
@slowberryvtuberclips I actually wrote a poem about this recently. Toponymy is a genuinely fascinating topic, especially when it comes to pre-colonial names. Tells you how the people living there, or used to, in many cases, thought of the landscape as well as what they valued/value as a culture.
For an actual answer; Barangaroo was the name of an Aboriginal woman. She was the wife of a prominent Aboriginal man named Bennelong, and elder of the local Eora tribe in the Sydney area.
If its australia you it better be crawling with poison and bug pokemon and a regional version kangis khan, doduo psyduck with a evolution of komala that it becomes a drop bear also dlc will be New Zealand
... Tittybong, victoria. Cockburn, western australia. Mount Buggery. Wanka Creek, queensland. Calli should play geoguessr australia again. This coming up in recommended reminded me of how funny the whole thing was
@@illusionarygalaxy really? I still have photos and I saw one last week looks a little different but still had the massive M right next to Yass 😅 (I travel between Sydney Yass and Canberra alot for work)
I live in Kingsgrove which is right next to Beverly Hills which you can see at the very start of the video. Nice to see my suburb name pop up on a Hololive stream.
The first time I heard that town name during Channel 4 weather news, I thought the weather reporter was showing off his linguistic skills. I found out years later that’s a real town when watching Taron Egerton on the Tonight Show promoting Eddie the Eagle
Come on down to Intercourse, Pennsylvania, where we have a grand old time doing… completely wholesome activities… Uhmm… Wait! Wait! Come on down to Fucking, Austria, where we have a grand old time doing… completely wholesome activ-Damn it!
Reminds me of how there's a town in S.France called "Bitche" where American soldiers landed during WWII and they decided to be nicknamed as "Sons of Bitche" lmao
Shitterton in the UK famously got so tired of the sign announcing the town being stolen they replaced it with a giant boulder too heavy to steal. And I just found out when I went to look it up just now that Fucking, Austria has changed its name to Fugging... Disappointing!
@@evenstarelectricrailway3281 lmao, I agree. I've actually ever since a kid always found Minas Tirith to be a weird name. Because Minas means mines, but there were no mines in the third book/movie 😂. Gerais is plural for general (not military kind, but from generality) Minas Gerais thus means General Mines. It's a State. The reasoning for that name is because the Brazilian Gold Rush found most of it's alluvial gold deposits in the region that became later said State. It wasn't fully explored yet, in fact, that enterprise is what made the state into what it is today. The state is famous for Barroque cities, with Portuguese styled architecture and Gilded ornamented Churches from that period. I hail from a neighbouring, older state, but my father's family is from there. The naming sense, as I had said months ago, is ludicrous 😂. Just for Appetizer: in the whole country, not just Minas Gerais, actually, thanks to double meanings, you can find many a city with "phallic-sounding" names because, well...... let's just say "sticks" are intuitive georeferences, and yes, as you can deduce, it's not only in English that it leaves room for unintentional double-entendre/accidental innuendos 😂 Someone even compiled in google maps such cities with a route linking them, and nicknamed it "The Stick Route" (Rota do Paul). It was a viral post on Instagram around here some while ago and I always love to introduce foreigners this "tourist route" that actually doesn't exist aside from memes 😂
bro when i was in high school in NZ we had two exchange students from wagga wagga and they had to get up in front of the school (about 800 kids) and introduce themselves and literally every single kid in the school burst out laughing every time either of them said "wagga wagga"
Indigenous words are the best. So satisfying and good to say. Toowoomba, Turramurra, Wollongong, Kilara, Kirribilli, Taronga, Coogee... they roll off the tongue so well. I'm so used to them now but when I talk to my Canadian friend to tell her I visited my aunt in Katoomba, she does exactly what you did lol
lol This reminds me of when yankees come down south and hear the name of some of the local cities that all have indian names like Weogufka and Sylacauga and Wetumpka and Tuskegee, etc. They're used to living in a place where literally everything is a name copy and pasted from the UK.
Don't you Australians also have a habit of naming basically every geological structure ever or creek or hill etc? I'm legit asking 'cause I'm not Australian at all, but I've heard that from a cousin, and I thought that was neat
Barangaroo is a really nice place for walks, shopping and eating out. That area used a lot for yearly major public events such Vivid, a light festival, and Sydney Festival, Sydney’s art and music festival
So apparently Barangaroo was the name of an Aboriginal woman with an interesting story. Burpengary was always the one for me. (If you don't get why... understand that the most common way I hear people say the "en" is closer to "ing")
As an Australian this makes me proud to be a Aussie bloke and yes we have many creative names for our towns and cities, you’ll have a field day with just how amazing they are
What, you yanks find the word "Barangaroo" funny? We have four areas called Mooney Mooney, Kangy Angy, Tumbi Umbi, and Woy Woy all in a 30km radius of each other north of Sydney.
@@VainerCactus0Fun Fact: No one actually knows where the word "Yarraman" (horse) comes from. Some say that it's the aboriginal word for a horse, but not only are there over a hundred different Australian Aboriginal dialects, there were no horses in Australia before the colonisers brought them, so why would the aboriginals have a name for them? Each side believes that the other came up with the name, so no one can figure out how it really came to be. It probably comes from a misheard mash of words that come from a scenario exactly like the one you're joking about!
its originally because the aboriginals had control of Australia first and named states and cities in their language first then we took over but still kept some names
Australian locale names go one of three ways. You got your Townsville and Castletown the colonisers came up with. Then likes of Wagga Wagga and Yilliminning the aboriginal people got to name. And after that the piss takers, Banana, Useless Loop, and uh....Mount Buggery.
Fun fact: when the British asked the Aboriginees what those animals were, they answered "Kangaroo". The British naturalists duly named them Kangaroos, not knowing that in Aboringinee, "Kangaroo" means "I don't understand your question."
@@slowberryvtuberclips It is. The best guess is that it is in fact from Guugu Yimidhirr (an australian aboriginal language spoken in north eastern Australia), where /ɡaŋuru/ does in fact mean kangaroo.
@@bobmcguffin5706 Don't forget Bitchfield, Cockermouth, Shitterton, Bell End, Twatt, Penistone, and Scunthorpe. Though I personally like the just plain weird ones like Weston-under-Lizard.
She was so close to seeing Woolloomooloo..
Or Wagga Wagga.
Sheeptoiletcowtoilet
send her to perth to find Gnangara
Do not inform her of Cockburn
Ayy, a WA brother!
Or Bongbong
Or Watanobbi
Or Mt Disappointment
Or blackbutt
Came for Eromanga, Queensland.
Or Moe, Victoria.
@@ConManAUWe should send ERB there. Moe, the name of a British Queen, she’d love it
Don't most ppl come for ero manga?
@@LopsidedMoz No I read it for the plot.
There was a sea from the Cretaceous named after Eromanga, which was about half the size of the Mediterranean, or three times the size of Germany or Japan.
So Australian paleontology books can be very silly
Indigenous Australian names really do pop off tbh.
Honestly when I say they sound "funny" I mean it in a kind-hearted way.
I'm a big language nerd so it's always very cool to see how different languages can sound or impact others etc
@slowberryvtuberclips I actually wrote a poem about this recently. Toponymy is a genuinely fascinating topic, especially when it comes to pre-colonial names. Tells you how the people living there, or used to, in many cases, thought of the landscape as well as what they valued/value as a culture.
@@GallowglassVTGot a link?
@@imonlysleeping4491 it's not published yet, but I might have it up soon. Just needs editing.
Aboriginal language is very Oral. They don't have alphabets. Early settlers can only guess the sounds the make when they tried to write it English.
"I guess there's multiple George Streets."
Nope thats the same George St, its just keeps going.
Yeah nah, that ain’t true. George St stops at railway square
For an actual answer; Barangaroo was the name of an Aboriginal woman. She was the wife of a prominent Aboriginal man named Bennelong, and elder of the local Eora tribe in the Sydney area.
So, Benny Long Banged a Roo. Follows.
Had us in the first half ngl
@@notfunny6606I don’t know if the story is true but all of these names are from Australian indigenous languages
@@notfunny6606They aren't kidding
@@notfunny6606 what do u mean? Eora is the original name for the whole Sydney settlement area. Give Pemulways a read.
Lets not forget that Melbourne used to be called Batmania becuse it was founded by, i kid you not, John Batman
I mean, if they *had* called it Batmania, we would have had to rename it to Gotham by now
"Eat a dinner, Matress Wayne."
- Alfred, John Batman's loyal batler.
I can't believe Australia had its own John Halo this whole time.
It never was called Batmania, it was just a proposed name that lost in the voting, getting second place.
@@Flashyw Clearly, the wrong choice was made
Banrangaroo sounds like the name of a Pokemon from a Pokemon version of Australia.
I’ve been putting together a “Pokémon or Australian town?” Quiz. The hard part is finding easy ones.
If its australia you it better be crawling with poison and bug pokemon and a regional version kangis khan, doduo psyduck with a evolution of komala that it becomes a drop bear also dlc will be New Zealand
Pocko
An uncomfortably muscular kangaroo.
@@mahbuddykeith1124 Just like in real life then lol.
I thought she was going to laugh at the Camperdown or Macdonaldtown on the same map
Holy- I didn't even notice those lmao
As a kid, my friend and I used to joke that Macdonaldtown was full of Maccas. What's funny about Camperdown though?
@@RayramAureanBlue camper down, as in fps campers
@@RayramAureanBlue eh I dunno, and I live there...
Camperdown? I barely know 'er.
As a sydney sider, barangaroo has been completely normalised for me. The name is just associated to the business district next to sydney harbour now
All it makes me think of now is Packer's Pecker (the phallic casino for the non-sydneysiders).
Yeah, been there too many times for it to sound anything but dull lol
I thought it was gonna be a straightforward yabai name but this is also hilarious. Calli is silly :)
Barangaroo sounds funky, but it's actually an extremely corporate area where everyone's in business suits and attire.
Wait till she finds out about Wagga wagga, Toowoomba, Wollongong, Dandenong and Werribee!
I have so much fun watching the yanks try to comprehend indigenous names
Woy Woy, and Wee Waa
wollongong, dandenong and werribee sound very normal and mundane to me bcus ive lived around those areas
I live in Werribee; that's not so funny.
Someone send her the old Maccas Yass sign.
Grew up near woy woy 😅@@pauligrossinoz
hey, I work there too!
It's still kinda crazy to me that just over a decade ago, that entire place was just a concrete port. Amazing what they've done with the land.
The town named after a Skrillex song
You have no idea how much I want to be mad at this joke. But I just can’t. Fuck you, you’ve earned this like
sounds like a mishmash of boomerang and kangaroo
All three are aboriginal words so it makes sense.
Wait, sounds is an aboriginal word?
@@antokarman2064pretty sure they meant “mishmash”
Kangoorang? Boomgaroo? Koomeroo? Bangerang maybe?
Batman and and his sideKICK Roobin
... Tittybong, victoria. Cockburn, western australia. Mount Buggery. Wanka Creek, queensland. Calli should play geoguessr australia again. This coming up in recommended reminded me of how funny the whole thing was
Ah yes, the Barangaroonians
Come to Darwin, we’ve got ‘Dickward street’, found in ‘Fannie bay’…
someone should show her the Maccas sign for Yass
it's the Maccas M right next to the name Yass :"D it's on the way from sydney to canberra
It's been gone for a very long time.
@@illusionarygalaxy really? I still have photos and I saw one last week looks a little different but still had the massive M right next to Yass 😅 (I travel between Sydney Yass and Canberra alot for work)
Wasn't there on the trip I did in January up to Canberra.
I live in Kingsgrove which is right next to Beverly Hills which you can see at the very start of the video. Nice to see my suburb name pop up on a Hololive stream.
Still not dethroning Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales.
To be fair, that name was intentionally made as long and unwieldy as possible for tourism purposes in the 1800s.
The first time I heard that town name during Channel 4 weather news, I thought the weather reporter was showing off his linguistic skills. I found out years later that’s a real town when watching Taron Egerton on the Tonight Show promoting Eddie the Eagle
Barangaroo sounds like the things Kangaroo Commando from Ben 10 throws.
Come on down to Intercourse, Pennsylvania, where we have a grand old time doing… completely wholesome activities… Uhmm…
Wait! Wait! Come on down to Fucking, Austria, where we have a grand old time doing… completely wholesome activ-Damn it!
Reminds me of how there's a town in S.France called "Bitche" where American soldiers landed during WWII and they decided to be nicknamed as "Sons of Bitche" lmao
And if your feeling adventurous, come to Flippin, Kentucky.
Stop by at Twatt, Orkney Islands
I’ve been to Intercourse, PA, and it’s actually a really wholesome Amish town!
Shitterton in the UK famously got so tired of the sign announcing the town being stolen they replaced it with a giant boulder too heavy to steal.
And I just found out when I went to look it up just now that Fucking, Austria has changed its name to Fugging... Disappointing!
WELCOME T'THA GOONDAWINDI DUSTY TRUCK N DONUT MUSTAH
My dad literally graduated from Wagga Wagga in Australia.
I s2g Australian cities are just..
You GOTTA come to Brazil, then. The naming sense in some states is Nuts If you know portuguese. Even we don't believe It. Specially in Minas Gerais
@@turinmormegil7715 Minas Gerais sounds like a satellite city for Minas Tirith and it's sick.
I guess that's because I don't know Portuguese.
@@evenstarelectricrailway3281 lmao, I agree. I've actually ever since a kid always found Minas Tirith to be a weird name. Because Minas means mines, but there were no mines in the third book/movie 😂. Gerais is plural for general (not military kind, but from generality)
Minas Gerais thus means General Mines. It's a State.
The reasoning for that name is because the Brazilian Gold Rush found most of it's alluvial gold deposits in the region that became later said State. It wasn't fully explored yet, in fact, that enterprise is what made the state into what it is today. The state is famous for Barroque cities, with Portuguese styled architecture and Gilded ornamented Churches from that period. I hail from a neighbouring, older state, but my father's family is from there. The naming sense, as I had said months ago, is ludicrous 😂.
Just for Appetizer: in the whole country, not just Minas Gerais, actually, thanks to double meanings, you can find many a city with "phallic-sounding" names because, well...... let's just say "sticks" are intuitive georeferences, and yes, as you can deduce, it's not only in English that it leaves room for unintentional double-entendre/accidental innuendos 😂
Someone even compiled in google maps such cities with a route linking them, and nicknamed it "The Stick Route" (Rota do Paul). It was a viral post on Instagram around here some while ago and I always love to introduce foreigners this "tourist route" that actually doesn't exist aside from memes 😂
bro when i was in high school in NZ we had two exchange students from wagga wagga and they had to get up in front of the school (about 800 kids) and introduce themselves and literally every single kid in the school burst out laughing every time either of them said "wagga wagga"
@@dingusuhummeanwhile NZ has the same thing with Māori words for town names
literally a lake pronounced fucka-teepoo
Indigenous words are the best. So satisfying and good to say. Toowoomba, Turramurra, Wollongong, Kilara, Kirribilli, Taronga, Coogee... they roll off the tongue so well. I'm so used to them now but when I talk to my Canadian friend to tell her I visited my aunt in Katoomba, she does exactly what you did lol
Wollongong represent
"it reminds me of kangaroo for some reason" wild guess it might be the "angaroo" part 😁
At least she didn't find Innaloo.
lol
This reminds me of when yankees come down south and hear the name of some of the local cities that all have indian names like Weogufka and Sylacauga and Wetumpka and Tuskegee, etc. They're used to living in a place where literally everything is a name copy and pasted from the UK.
Don't you Australians also have a habit of naming basically every geological structure ever or creek or hill etc?
I'm legit asking 'cause I'm not Australian at all, but I've heard that from a cousin, and I thought that was neat
Sorta, yeah. A lot of them have Aboriginal names tied to the hundreds of nations so it helps
@@slowberryvtuberclipsHow did you get an American southerner confused with an Aussie? 😂
Waiting for Calli, Bae trip to Australia
Took em long enough
Literally was just there last weekend at an american smokehouse themed restaurant. Shit goes hard.
Personal favourite is Nar Nar Goon.
Calli has no leg to stand on since she's from a place that has a town named Deepinaharta.
Nobody tell her about wollongong
Also about what happened at engadine macca's
My guess was that she'd found Woolloomooloo
Barangaroo is a really nice place for walks, shopping and eating out. That area used a lot for yearly major public events such Vivid, a light festival, and Sydney Festival, Sydney’s art and music festival
1:29 As a former 12 year old, I confirm this word used to make me laugh my beat off
So apparently Barangaroo was the name of an Aboriginal woman with an interesting story.
Burpengary was always the one for me. (If you don't get why... understand that the most common way I hear people say the "en" is closer to "ing")
**burp**
Was expecting Cooma
As an Australian this makes me proud to be a Aussie bloke and yes we have many creative names for our towns and cities, you’ll have a field day with just how amazing they are
Barangaroo sounds like when you toss a kanga, but she keeps coming back.
As a Australian I approve her laughing because its also a funny name 😂
The sad thing is that barangaroo was a first nations person in the early colony that was not treated the best from what i remember from school
Barangaroo sounds so rude in my language, it's basically like saying bitcharoo
That's a bloody outrage it is. I'm going to take this to me member of parliament. Hey Gus! I got something to report to ya.
I’m gonna take this all the way to the prime minister!
OI, MISTA PRIME MINISTA!
ANDY!
@@YungCuzzOi, mates! What's the good word?
(Australian Prime Minister responding promptly, as usual, and _definetely_ not 9 days late...)
Has anyone told Calli that Calliope is a real place in Australia?
I dunno, is Barangaroo any funnier than Lake Titicaca?
Titicaca? I need tp for my bunghole!
As a Perth person, was expecting the suburb of Cockburn
i just want to point out theres a town near London England, called Reading - and it has a school for the blind.
Shoutout to the village of Lower Crackpot, Tasmania!
What, you yanks find the word "Barangaroo" funny?
We have four areas called Mooney Mooney, Kangy Angy, Tumbi Umbi, and Woy Woy all in a 30km radius of each other north of Sydney.
mooney mooney is that cloes to sydeny
@@bananam22 Yep. The Central Coast is a mishmash of weird names. Like Watanobbi (what-a-knobby)
A lot of Australian town names are just the Aboriginal words for what that area was called.
I have a theory that some of them mean something like "That is a hill, can't you see? Do your eyes not work or something?"
@@VainerCactus0Fun Fact: No one actually knows where the word "Yarraman" (horse) comes from. Some say that it's the aboriginal word for a horse, but not only are there over a hundred different Australian Aboriginal dialects, there were no horses in Australia before the colonisers brought them, so why would the aboriginals have a name for them? Each side believes that the other came up with the name, so no one can figure out how it really came to be. It probably comes from a misheard mash of words that come from a scenario exactly like the one you're joking about!
Yeah, Aussie town and street names just roll right off the tongue like that
I was like this with Tumbarumba. I read all these town names with an Aussie accent in my head.
Ever been down Glasscocks Road?
its originally because the aboriginals had control of Australia first and named states and cities in their language first then we took over but still kept some names
Wait until she finds out about Wollongong.
what is so wrong about wollongong
At least she didn’t see Yass
Knobbys head, Guys Dirty Hole, Quality Knob, Lovely Bottom, let alone the mountain and hill names...
Wait till she hears about Grong Grong.
“There are multiple George Streets?”
Oh, yeah. It’s a mess.
"I immediately though of kangaroo FOR SOME REASON"
Was expecting Bulahdelah, Coolongolook, Wooloomooloo, or perhaps even Bundaberg, but ok.
Calli should do a Australian place naming just to show her the even more weirder named places down here hahaha
Oh man, I know that exact corner and pass it every week…
I saw Mcdonaldtown so anything is possible.
Skrillex writes a song called Bangarang
Australian Skrillex writes a song called Bangaroo
Wait until she learns about Rooty Hill. Also, Pakenham Upper.
Australia has some legendary place names, like Tittybong. It's right by Cokum and Wangie
Lmao, everyone reacts the same to that name.
i have not
As an Australian I never thought this name was weird ?
dont tell her about cooma
The only thing I know about Sydney is P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney
Nothing surpasses SeattlEHEHEHEHE THE FUNNIEST THING I EVER HEAR SEATTLE
Australian locale names go one of three ways. You got your Townsville and Castletown the colonisers came up with. Then likes of Wagga Wagga and Yilliminning the aboriginal people got to name. And after that the piss takers, Banana, Useless Loop, and uh....Mount Buggery.
Gotta love Mount Disappointment & Lake Disappointment
Dang, thought she found Tumby
It made Calli think of Kangaroo, but I had just one word on my mind: “bangarang!”
Fun fact: when the British asked the Aboriginees what those animals were, they answered "Kangaroo". The British naturalists duly named them Kangaroos, not knowing that in Aboringinee, "Kangaroo" means "I don't understand your question."
One e in Aborigine
Apparently Yucatan in Mexico has the same story.
I think I've heard that was an example of folk etymology and not considered the real etymology by linguists, tho :(
@@slowberryvtuberclips It is. The best guess is that it is in fact from Guugu Yimidhirr (an australian aboriginal language spoken in north eastern Australia), where /ɡaŋuru/ does in fact mean kangaroo.
That is a myth by the way. Look up the wiki on kangaroos and it dispels this myth. The Aboriginals called these animals gangurru.
I thought she was going to find Cunninara.
Wait till she finds “well it wasn’t there last year” cave (yes it’s a real place)
She is yet to hear of Wagga Wagga or Wollongong
Wait til she finds Iron Knob...
We have weirder sounding places everywhere. Trust me 🤣
Woolloomooloo
British towns have some cracking names too
the british stray, callie is American
Come on down to Frome. Or Great Snoring (just down the road from Little Snoring). We even have a Toaster! (Though not spelled like that)
@@bobmcguffin5706 Don't forget Bitchfield, Cockermouth, Shitterton, Bell End, Twatt, Penistone, and Scunthorpe. Though I personally like the just plain weird ones like Weston-under-Lizard.
@@TombCat-ni8et Futoshi Cockermouth goes hard , i got a name for the new Niji EN wave.
@@bobmcguffin5706wtf why is my home town the first one someone said?
Tie me barangaroo down, sport, tie me barangaroo down.
Wait until she learns of Kanga Bangas
She was so close to Glebe
Wait till she see's Jiggi, Mumulgum, Wollongbar, Main Arm, Skenners Head and mullumbimby 😂
She _would_ laugh at that
Nobody tell her about Woolloomooloo.
No one tell her about Wollongong
There's an area in NE Vic called Tittybong.
I used to work in Barangaroo. Decent restaurants around there.
fark, shez barely scratched the surface!
What about YASS!….I mean Yass.
Wait till she finds out about Woolloomooloo
Australia has a place named “Hollywood” too.
Just wait until you find out about Wollongong, not to be confused with Woolloongabba
Barangaroo name gives pokemon vibes, if it does it was because of Mori for game freak to use for a Pokémon down the track