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Having just got off a 16-hour flight from Adelaide, the longhaired Aussie seemed somewhat bemused by all the fuss.
Westward round the southern coast, Adelaide was first approached from the sea as was, at the western extreme, Perth.
Gunyah , the Dharuk word for dwelling, is matched by the Melburnian quamby , a verb meaning lie down, camp, and also a noun meaning shelter, by the Brisbane humpy , the Adelaide wurley , and the Perth mia mia .
The language spoken on the site of Adelaide, Gaurna, though unusually well recorded—by Lutheran missionaries who were amongst the early settlers—again yielded only about ten loans.
Other loanwords repeat the Sydney pattern, striking or otherwise significant flora, fauna, and weapons being named: so there is the Tasmanian boobialla , a fruit-bearing Acacia, the Melburnian bullan bullan , a beautiful bird with a lyre-shaped tail, the Brisbane yungan gong, the Adelaide pinkie , a bilby or bandicoot, and the Perth quokka , a species of wallaby.