Arriving at Port Phillip with Historian and Author, Lance Pritchard - retracing Hume and Hovell

[@HumeandHovellRide]

Karen and Lance, a good video presentation. Yes, Port Phillip is the better description.

[@LifeintheBush]

Thank you Peter 😊

[@hankcuccina5260]

Port Phillip has 16 bays, apparently.

[@LifeintheBush]

👍🏼 you learn something every day 😊

[@ianmontgomery7534]

yes calling anything more than Port Phillip is unnecessary and wrong.

[@LifeintheBush]

@@ianmontgomery7534 thank you for your kind input

[@cottawalla]

We were all taught in school that Hovell is pronounced "hovel" however, according to one decendent (a prominent Canberra musician and business owner in the 1970s named John Hovell), it is pronounced Ho-vell.

[@LifeintheBush]

Yes, I heard there was a different pronunciation and even reached out to another descendant who's mother and uncle are the last with the Hovell surname. I couldn't get clarification on the sound of the 'o' and it just kept coming out of my mouth the way I was taught through my descendancy anyway. There was no mention of the pronunciation being any different through my family blood line, I guess pronunciation just changes over time.

[@atheistaetherist2747]

No such place as Port Phillip Bay, just Port Phillip.

[@LifeintheBush]

Have never been corrected on that before 🤔. I grew up near the bay and, like all locals, have always known it as Port Phillip Bay.

[@atheistaetherist2747]

@@LifeintheBush Yes for sure. It looks like Western Port is also often wrongly called Bay.

[@LifeintheBush]

You learn something every day 👍🏼🙏🏼

[@jumboegg5845]

@@LifeintheBush Yes, its popular name is Port Philip Bay, that's what we generally call it. You go down to the bay for a swim. The old timer sailors called it Port Phillip. Don't know what today's shipping captains call it, but we have several major shipping ports around the bay. Last few decades its become a thing to point out its formal name....pedantic.

[@LifeintheBush]

@@jumboegg5845 ☺👍

[@stephend7420]

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[@LifeintheBush]

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