Etymology of Wark's

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Good to know that onomatopoeia wasn't allowed to run riot. Where would it have ended, a national capital called crEEK after Gang-gang calls?

John L

On 17 December 2017 at 17:11, David McDonald (personal) <> wrote:

Ah, a good suggestion, John, better than the road being named after Harry Wark, the ganger of the crew that built it:
https://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/search/Manuscript_Collections/cotter_water_supply_series
Cheers - David

On 17/12/2017 4:06 PM, John Leonard wrote:

I was on Wark's Road today and reflecting that it's good that Wonga Pigeons have become almost common in that area in the last few years. I was listening to one calling (which of course sounds like wark, wark, wark) and I had a thought perhaps Wark's Road was named after this sound, rather than someone called Wark.

😀

John Leonard


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