‘Clear Water‘ ‘Beautiful Woman’
The two most popular Aboriginal meanings 1 for our town Queanbeyan are ‘clear water’ and ‘beautiful woman’ 2 but the pronunciation of Queanbeyan using the recorded phonic spelling made by white people during the early contact period, make the Aboriginal pronunciation less clear.
Cu-Um-bean is the phonetic spelling used by Stewart Mowle for [...]
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