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Its name was first written down as betcherrygah , that being a transliteration of the Yuwaalaraay word gijirrigaa (Yuwaalaraay being a language similar to the better-known Kamilaroi), but the temptation to explain the word had triumphed over the etymologizing process as early as 1848, when the spelling budgery garr was preferred, and the first element explained as meaning in the black's language--good or handsome.