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Old Apr 19, 2002 | 6:20 pm
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Joh
 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
Programs: UA 1K, Hilton Honours Gold, KLM Gold
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Belle, and why not spell your home town AtlanTAAAH?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Well, if you have to pronounce it Koo-Want-tas, then why spell it as it reads Kantas?

So, is it then Australia or Astralia?

befuddled belle</font>
Koo-Wan-Tas is how those who spell it QUANTAS pronounce it. (May as well be wrong on both counts, right?!) HOWEVER, those who live here and work for the airline pronounce it KWON-TASS. And this finest of all continents is never called by locals Astralia. But OZtralia.

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