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What is a Warrajah?

To: "Russell Woodford" <>, "Gemfyre" <>
Subject: What is a Warrajah?
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:36:15 +1100
Interesting thoughts. In the bushland near Canberra is a "Condor Creek". Hard 
to imagine where that one came from and why someone would choose vulture-like 
US birds as a name. Though there is surely many other foreign animal names in 
Australian localities (Badger Creek near Healesville for example). And then we 
have a suburb Conder, named after the painter Charles Conder and you see it 
frequently in the local newspapers and elsewhere and pronounced by people as 
"Condor". Crazy really. Maybe it is due to spell checkers.

Philip



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