THE SCATTERHEART SMALLTOWN COMPETITION
The Deal:
Remember Douglas Adams’ Meaning of Liff? Where he and John Lloyd took place names and gave them dictionary definitions?
Well I want you to do that with some of the places I’ve been to in the last fortnight (on tour with work). They are all actual places in regional Victoria. And the best two will win a free copy of Scatterheart.
An Example:
Yeungroon: (verb) The noise you make when you’ve eaten three vanilla slices in rapid succession. The girl went a funny greenish-yellow colour and let out a pained yeungroon.
Now it’s your turn. I offer the following placenames for your consideration:
Manangatang
Patchewallock
Boinka
Boigbeat
Teddywally West
Bollangum
Minyip
Wycheproof
Nyah
Boomahnoomoonah
(submit your entries in the comments. competition will be open until… i don’t know. a fortnight? we’ll see. you can enter as many times as you like. apologies to anyone who lives in these towns, or speaks the language that they are named in, and is offended)