Budgerygah

/ˌbʌdʒəˈraɪɡə/ noun

Yet another variant spelling of budgerigar, showing the variety of ways colonial naturalists attempted to write the Aboriginal Australian term.

One more of the many orthographic variations of the Dharug word budgerigar, demonstrating how the same borrowed word acquired multiple competing spellings before standardization.

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