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Your readers, treasuring punctilio the way we do, will have written you in hot numbers about the familiar solecism that slipped past author Bill Ramson and the copy editor who sits next to you: in Dharuk Words in English, XXIII, 1, 10], we find, Aboriginal language must have mitigated against borrowing.
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 .
Second, a positive effort needed to be made to ascertain the Aboriginal name, and experience showed that the geographical range of Dharuk was extremely limited: the fact that a new set of names came into use as one crossed the boundary of another Aboriginal language must have mitigated against borrowing.
But, though the Nyungar words supply a more comprehensive picture of Aboriginal life than do the Dharuk or those from any single inland language, the greater number of words used to denote key notions of Aboriginal belief and life are special uses of English words like cleverman, which has replaced words like the Dharuk koradji and the Nyoongar boylya , which are effectively obsolete.
Borak was borrowed in the late 1830s and, perhaps because the Dharuk negative baal was already in use, did not last long in its primary sense.