Date: 2008-09-13 04:46 pm (UTC)
I hate it when they don't give you the right info on road signs - and it is certainly not just an Australian habit!

Ballarat always sounds to me as if it is where a Manx immigrant saw a nasty rodent.

Actually there is at least one place in Australia misnamed (by now) after one of our Ballas - Ballajura in WA was Ballajora to start with, and my father in law who lives in WA says that he saw Ballajura described as a native Aboriginal name when he first went there - but its history has now been properly reclaimed.
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