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Offline Jaznjjj

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Re: Catholic Sacraments
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 05 June 18 12:34 BST (UK) »
Same scenario, primary school years and first year of High School at Broken Hill - no rude words even known to me, let alone used.  They became known to me subsequent to arrival in Sydney.  I must have been so innocent, I wasn't even aware that some religious denominations did not get along with each other. 

I wasn't sure of the spelling of warrigal - I had only ever heard it, never read it or had to write it until now.  Now I'm wondering where my grandmother got it from - born 1897, always lived in Sydney suburbs until moved to a farm at St. Marys in the 1940s but I imagine it was part of her vocabulary well before the farm.  I'm wondering whether "warrigal" is like both the old names for a female dog which started off legitimate (for want of a better word), but are now used in a derogatory way. 

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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 05 June 18 13:33 BST (UK) »
.... I believe it is also a place, and warrigal greens are a vegetable like spinach.  ...

I know a road by that name. I will see it in a different light from now on.  ;)