The Oxford Australian National Dictionary (now available free online
at http://203.166.81.53/and/ ) gives this etymology for 'Jackeroo'
Jagara dhùgai-iu wandering white man
So, yes, the Aboriginal language of Brisbane, but no noisy birds.
John Leonard
2009/3/9 Carl Clifford <>:
> Troy,
> Ain' no such critter as a "Pied Crow-Strike". It is just another example of
> journalistic illiteracy, or an over-reliance on spell-check. I think that
> what the journo meant is "Pied Crow-Shrike", which John Gould called the
> Pied Currawong in his "Birds of Australia".
>
> Cheers cobber,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
> On 09/03/2009, at 11:00 AM, Troy Mutton wrote:
>
> Hi birders,
>
>
>
> Read this bit on the SMH just now -
> http://www.smh.com.au/national/its-our-own-strain-of-strine-habib-20090308-8sgx.html?page=-1 about
> ¾ down.
>
>
>
> ""Yakka", from the Yagara language of Brisbane, is one of the few commonly
> used Aboriginal words, along with "jackaroo", probably a Brisbane word for a
> pied crow strike, one of the country's noisiest birds."
>
>
>
> Does anyone want to have a go at what a "Pied Crow Strike" is? I'm thinking
> it must be magpie-lark (or mudlark, or murray magpie, or possibly now "pied
> crow strike"), currawong, or magpie. I wouldn't think any of them to be
> among the country's noisiest birds - surely the sulphur-crested cockatoos
> have got that down.
>
>
>
> I can't recall if this has been discussed here before - and the archive's
> down.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Troy
>
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