Box 4 Folder 2: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 52

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Memorandum..................................................................18.........

From.............................................................................................

               To.......................................................................................

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which is only a comparatively short
distance south from here, I have
been much surprised at the almost total
dissimilarity of the words used there
and here.       For instance, there, the  
word water is Battoo (or Bahtu)
and here it is Nahroo and so on
              Even within a radius of a few miles
round about this place, the variations of
dialect are very pronounced.

                                               J.M Creagh PM
                                                                Warden
                                                     Grafton 7.10.99

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