Re: OT Academia (was Re: Dr. Gunn)

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 18:39, Barry Garcia wrote:

<borrowing 'Koorie' for all Aborigines>

> Getting a bit off track, do Australians tend to pick one word to describe
> all similar native things, such as your example?
>
> An example is the term for the a specific cycad from the genus Macrozamia
> (M. communis). The term "Burrawang" (Barawang) is used to refer to many
> cycads (in Macrozamia, Lepidozamia, and Cycas). However, the term is from
> the Dharuk language of the Sydney/Illawara region and applied only to M.
> communis, but has been applied to the previously mentioned genuses.
I'm afraid I don't know. I'd never really thought about it. Could be.

Tristan.