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Budgie Myths

You will read in many places that becherigar, boocherrigar etc. etc. means "good eating" in Aboriginal. As a graduate in Aboriginal studies at an Australian university I can tell you that, as far as I?ve been able to ascertain, it?s just one of those amusing stories. In a similar vein the word Yucatan which describes the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is supposed to mean, "I don?t understand you" in nahua, an American Indian language of the Uto-Aztecan family. There were about 500 Aboriginal languages in Australia at the time of white settlement, many of which were mutually unintelligible. Exactly in which Aboriginal language betcherigar was supposed to have been used seems to be a mystery.
This talk about the word betcherigar is always a source of enormous amusement to my Aboriginal colleagues. "Yes", one of them said, "and koala means tasty breakfast, kangaroo means big snack, emu means Sunday dinner eating."