Dear Poland, thank you for giving us a name for our highest mountain. Sorry about how we pronounce it. Love Australia.

Dear Poland, thank you for giving us a name for our highest mountain. Sorry about how we pronounce it. Love Australia.
by u/Rd28T in poland

21 comments

  2. I’m in Sydney and it does my fecking head in how Aussies pronounce this kozeee osss ko. There’s a popular beer here named after the mountain. If only they did a little research into the great man. Strzelecki who named the mountain has an interesting biography too

  3. It always amaze me how little Aussies know about their own country history. I mean it’s not like you need to memorize 1000,2000 or 5000 years of content. Even counting pre colonisation you could binge learn most crucial stuff.

    I know history is not a strony subject in your schools but come on, internet exists and puree human curiosity would do.

    No hard feelings, just saying.

  4. No need to be sorry, this just how you pronounce it. Of course it’s named after a Pole and here we pronounce his surname in a different way, but it doesn’t mean you have to pronounce it the same. For the mountain, it’s an Australian given name, so it’s ok to pronounce it Australian way. If someone was talking about actual Kosciuszko as s person, it would be better to put some effort in the right pronunciation, but if it fails, I wouldn’t be surprised, as the surname is not an easiest one. Here in Poland we also butcher foreign names and I don’t think that anyone in the world cares about it. Heck, we even translate some names for whatever reason, like Jerzy Waszyngton instead of George Washington.

  10. Hahah we trolled the Aussies by giving them unpronounceable name for their highest mountain

  12. Damn, so bad that they might as well say random name every time they talk about this mountain.

  13. Every time ppl say he was polish it hurts me. He was Ruthenian aka Belarusian. Both his parents are Ruthenians aka Belarusians. He identified himself as Litwin – which was mostly used to describe Belarusian speaking inhabitants of Grand Duchy.

  14. Lmao as a Brit who had a lot of Polish school friends growing up, I had honestly never thought about how this mountain was pronounced. I read a series of books featuring it when I was a kid and in my head said it the Polish way lol

  15. Wasn’t the name changed for PC reasons to something from one of aboriginal languages?

  16. I’m sorry, but Kosciushko was born on the territory of Belarus . He is as such Polish as Belarusian.

  18. Could be worse, it could have been named Mount Brzęczyszczykiewicz, or Mount Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka.

  19. Ye most of our last names are just someone playing twister in a piece of paper

  20. It’s still better than American pronunciation 😸

Leave a Reply