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Re: Question...

To: Denise Goodfellow <>, Christopher Watson <>, Birding Aus <>
Subject: Re: Question...
From: Syd Curtis <>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:49:22 +1000
Take your word for it that Djigirridjdjigirridj is onomatopoeic, Denise.
Haven't tried to pronounce it.  But without doing so, without attributing
sounds to letters, the printed word somehow 'looks' like a W W's call.
Beaut!

Syd

> From: Denise Goodfellow <>
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:30:54 +0930
> To: Christopher Watson <>, Birding Aus
> <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Re: Question...
> 
> Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land have many bird names,
> for example Djigirridjdjigirridj, for Willie Wagtail.  Other names relate to
> colour, eg Dalgerowgen, for Crimson Finch.  However, my relatives do not
> appear to have such wonderfully descriptive names for birds of prey as the
> Western Desert peoples.
> Denise L Goodfellow

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