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why 'gaol' and not 'jail'?? :?
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Gaol is the older term, I just like it better than the newcomer Jail.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro ... it/7532694

Anyway, is it Old Melbourne Gaol or Jail?

http://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/old-melbourne-gaol/
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Old Melbourne Gaol as historical prisons keep the historical name.

Why not go a step further & call it gayol? :wink:

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/ ... ticle/371/
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Post by Piethagoras' Theorem »

Nah that's going back to the Flintstones, when Barney dropped the soap

We'll have a gayol time
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^

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