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Tag: Kattang language

  • Do you know what a ‘Googery’ is?

    In this article, reproduced from our latest issue of Ozwords,  Bruce Moore explores an Australian English word from an aboriginal language, ‘googery’. In Lily on the Dustbin: Slang of Australian Women and Families (1982), Nancy Keesing includes a list of words supplied to her by the poet Les Murray. Included in the list is the…