Thanks Dick, your wally wally story reminds me of a couple of pronunciations of Australian words or place names, often but not always on US TV shows.

A story about an ee'-moo i.e. emu in America which escaped from its enclosure. It's pronounced ee'myou not ee'-moo.

A fictional town in Oz called Woop Woop, which was pronounced on a TV show rhyming with loop instead of rhyming with the double o in look.

"Woop Woop is used to refer to a place in the middle of nowhere. People use it to signify that a location is far away, unfamiliar to them, and difficult to get to."

There are a lot of place names in Oz which are from First Nations languages, and the pronunciations can be quite funny, if someone does not know the local pronunciation. Wagga Wagga is pronounced Wogga Wogga - don't ask me why, I don't know. Wee Waa is pronounced Wee War, and there is a specific emphasis on the syllables in the longer names which can sound funny when the emphasis is misplaced.

On the other hand, it's interesting that people from Melbourne, Vic pronounce the place called Castlemaine as Cass'ellmaine, and tend to refer to where I live i.e. Newcastle as Newcass'le instead of pronouncing it New'carsle. That might hark back to the way the UK people pronounce it, I guess.

Note: the ' denotes the syllable which is emphasised in the pronunciation.