Quote Originally Posted by Giomen View Post
............ Although I would prefer to catymag voice in my devices but Michelle is better than Matilda promoted by Neil
Yeah??? (on both counts).

1. Didn't you recently say something like "Catymag is devil in skirt, and she scares the bejesus outta me sometimes!" or words to that effect. So are you now 'crawling' to her so that your thread doesn't end up in 'Siberia' ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]). Might work. Provoking me in the same sentence is not going to help you unfortunately. 2 recent examples there: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] which both started life elsewhere!

2. Michelle is way, waay, waaay better than Jill who sounds like she's gargling a mouthful of marbles sometimes. However, are you just trying to wind me up by saying Michelle is better than Matilda? Surely you only mean it's a better name, which it is. I have to say that 'matilda' in AU slang means at it's mildest a 'swag', or a bag containing a swag (bedroll) slung over the back of a Swagman (Swaggie for short), a Hobo or Tramp, or at best an itinerant worker.. Hence 'waltzing matilda' (carrying the swag or 'humping the bluey', bush blankets were generally blue). That's the meaning in the song 'Waltzing Matilda' which many people would have heard. Unfortunately, a matilda can also refer to a female of perhaps dubious morals who accompanies a swaggie on his wanderings as his de-facto wife. I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to the naming connection between 'matilda the swag' and 'matilda the missus'. So, although swaggies and their matildas of both types have long disappeared us old blokes remember and it's a bit of laugh that the name has recently made a comeback. I don't know any females over 10 yo named that in Oz.

So why Garmin picked 'Matilda' is beyond me!

But i guess whether you prefer the voice of Michelle (pretty name) over Matilda (joke name) is simply down to personal taste. The Yank voices are all a bit too 'twangy' for my ear, maybe the Aussie ones are too 'nasally' for many. The Brits are maybe a good compromise. IMO the M's are both superior sounding over their Jill and Karen counterparts and it's a great pity they are not TTS. Maybe it will happen.
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