Talk:Molonglo River

Etymology
Just wondering what the source on the Yeal-am-bidgee name is? If its a Ngunnawal name it could go in Ngunnawal language Cfitzart 22:52, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I've supplied the explanation on the discussion page for Canberra. Here is an online version of the source where I got the name Yeal-am-Bidgee from: 0/4e782ee652d0db0aca2569de001fb2dd?OpenDocument- open it and search for "Yeal-am-bid-gie" or "Throsby".  As Yeal-am-bidgee is clearly, reliably recorded as the name for the Molonglo River it casts serious doubt on the claim that Kemberra/Kemberry/etc. was a name for the Molonglo River.  As I said on the discussion page for Canberra, for this and other reasons I think the alternative explanation of "Nganbra", being the name for the plain between Mt Ainslie and Black Mountain (views of which were not obscured by heavy development back then), and meaning "hollow between a woman's breasts" becomes very plausible.  And I must say, I reject any sad, prudish arguments that this name is sexist or racist.  It is an "innocent" name and I find it quite poetic and beautiful.

Must also point out that there is an interesting pattern of the suffix "bidgee" being used for names of rivers of the Canberra region. We have the "Murrumbidgee" and "Goodradigbee" (which almost certainly has had its letters transposed and was originally "Goodrabidgee"); that the Molonglo followed this trend and was called Yeal-am-bigee makes sense. Codman 23:30, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

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