LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.06 (07) [E]

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From: David Pinto <david_e_pinto at yahoo.ca>
Subject: More on cooee


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Word of the Day: Thursday 30 September  2004  Cooee
      Kel Richards writes:

      Cooee is (or was originally) a call used to attract attention in the
bush. Used as such the first syllable is drawn out, and the second syllable
rises rapidly in pitch. Its of Aboriginal origin, coming from the Dharruk
people who lived in the west of what is now Sydney. Its first recorded in
1790 in Governor Hunter’s journal. Because of the peculiar carrying quality
of this call it was adopted by white settlers for the same purpose –
attracting attention in the bush (sometimes over considerable distances).
There have been other uses that have developed from this. So in the First
Word War there was the idea of a cooee that was calling young Australian men
to battle, and a recruiting march from rural New South Wales to Sydney was
called “The Cooee March”. And because cooee works, as a call, over distance
it can become a reference to distance, as in the expression “within cooee” –
meaning within hailing distance. And in Queensland there is a place called
Cooee Bay (not far from Yeppoon) where they have an annual “Cooee Calling
Contest” – in which winners are judged on the loudness of their cooee and
how long they can maintain the call. (The record is in excess of 20
seconds.)


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