Note to Americans talking about Melbourne It is not pronounced Mel-BOORN (actually, I don’t think I can even capture with phonetic spelling the strange things you do to the ‘ourne’ section). MEL-b’n is the more common pronunciation. If you’re being fancy about it, you can extend to MEL-ben, or even MEL-bern. But never Mel-BOORN. Melbs … Continue reading pronunciation issues