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Cooee! (IPA /ku:'i:/) is a shout used in the Australian Outback mainly to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one's own location. When done correctly - loudly and shrilly - a call of "cooee" can carry over a considerable distance.
The call began as an Indigenous Australian custom – a loanword from the Dharuk, the original inhabitants of the Sydney area,[1] and has now become widely used in Australia. It was known among White settlers there in colonial times and Watkin Tench refers to the Aborigines of Sydney calling to each other in this way.
One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries hinges on the use of "cooee!". The Boscombe Valley Mystery is solved partly because, unlike everyone else, Holmes realises that it is an Australian word. This leads to a suspect.
An expression "within cooee of" has developed. It means "not far from", and seems to be confined to New Zealand and Australian English.
The word cooee has become a name of many organisations, places and even events. Perhaps the most historic of these was the Cooee March during the First World War. It was staged by 35 men from Gilgandra, New South Wales, 766 km northwest of Sydney, as a recruiting drive after enthusiasm for the war waned in 1915 with the first casualty lists. The men marched to Sydney calling "Cooee!" to encourage others to come and enlist. When they reached Sydney on 12 December, the group had grown to 277 men. To this day, Gilgandra holds a yearly Cooee Festival in October to commemorate the event. Other Cooee Festivals occur across Australia.
The call began as an Indigenous Australian custom – a loanword from the Dharuk, the original inhabitants of the Sydney area,[1] and has now become widely used in Australia. It was known among White settlers there in colonial times and Watkin Tench refers to the Aborigines of Sydney calling to each other in this way.
One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries hinges on the use of "cooee!". The Boscombe Valley Mystery is solved partly because, unlike everyone else, Holmes realises that it is an Australian word. This leads to a suspect.
An expression "within cooee of" has developed. It means "not far from", and seems to be confined to New Zealand and Australian English.
The word cooee has become a name of many organisations, places and even events. Perhaps the most historic of these was the Cooee March during the First World War. It was staged by 35 men from Gilgandra, New South Wales, 766 km northwest of Sydney, as a recruiting drive after enthusiasm for the war waned in 1915 with the first casualty lists. The men marched to Sydney calling "Cooee!" to encourage others to come and enlist. When they reached Sydney on 12 December, the group had grown to 277 men. To this day, Gilgandra holds a yearly Cooee Festival in October to commemorate the event. Other Cooee Festivals occur across Australia.
"Cooee" outside of Australia
India
It is believed that the word "cooee" is also used in the south Indian (Western Ghat) peninsular regions. The word has the same meaning as Australian word "cooee".United Kingdom
This word was also used by young children in western Scotland in the 1950s as a means of calling in friends at long distance.References
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Advance Australia Fair [1]
Capital Canberra
Largest city Sydney
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Advance Australia Fair [1]
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Largest city Sydney
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Outback refers to remote and arid areas of Australia, although the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside of the main urban areas. The term "outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas deemed "the bush".
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Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. The term includes both the Torres Strait Islanders and the Aboriginal People, who together make up about 2.5% of Australia's population.
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A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself.
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Darug may refer to:
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- Darug people
- Darug language
- Dharruk, New South Wales
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Sydney
New South Wales
Location of Sydney within Australia
Population:
• Density: 4,280,190 (2006 Census) (1st)
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New South Wales
Location of Sydney within Australia
Population:
• Density: 4,280,190 (2006 Census) (1st)
345.
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Lieutenant-General Watkin Tench (1758 – 7 May 1833) was a British Marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859–7 July, 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor
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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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"The Boscombe Valley Mystery", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891.
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New Zealand English (NZE) is the English spoken in New Zealand.
New Zealand English - often colloquially referred to as Newzild - is close to Australian English in pronunciation, but has several subtle differences often overlooked by people from outside these
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New Zealand English - often colloquially referred to as Newzild - is close to Australian English in pronunciation, but has several subtle differences often overlooked by people from outside these
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Australian English (AuE, AusE, en-AU) is the form of the English language used in Australia.[1]
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History
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During World War I, recruitment marches or snowball marches to Sydney were a feature of volunteer recruiting drives for the Australian Imperial Force in rural New South Wales, Australia.
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Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.
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Gilgandra
New South Wales
"Cooee marchers" of 1915
Population: 2,718 (2001 census)
Established: 1888
Postcode: 2827
Elevation: 282 m
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New South Wales
"Cooee marchers" of 1915
Population: 2,718 (2001 census)
Established: 1888
Postcode: 2827
Elevation: 282 m
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New South Wales
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Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State
Motto(s): "Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites"
(Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine)
Other Australian states and territories
Capital Sydney
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Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State
Motto(s): "Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites"
(Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine)
Other Australian states and territories
Capital Sydney
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Sydney
New South Wales
Location of Sydney within Australia
Population:
• Density: 4,280,190 (2006 Census) (1st)
345.
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New South Wales
Location of Sydney within Australia
Population:
• Density: 4,280,190 (2006 Census) (1st)
345.
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casualty is a person who is the victim of an accident, injury, or trauma. The word casualties is most often used by the media to describe deaths and injuries resulting from wars or disasters.
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December 12 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"
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Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
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