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The Man from Goondiwindi Q

...1904 

(This verse was published, copiously illustrated by Lionel Lindsay. Each stanza had its own illustration.) 
The pronounciation of many Australian place-names can be quite unexpected. Goondiwindi is a case in point. The town is situated on the border of Queensland and New south Wales, on the banks of the Macintyre River, and its name is pronounced "gun-da-windy", with the main stress on the third syllable, a secondary stress on the first....Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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