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From: Hugo Zweep <Zweep at bigpond.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.06.02 (04) [E]

Reminds me of several Australianisms probably starting with the description
of South Australians as being crow eaters. Oxford's Australian National
Dictionary has the earliest reference to this in 1881 "because it was
asserted that the early settlers ..., when short of mutton, made a meal of
the unwary crow".

The there is the archaic Australian slang phrase "stone (starve) the crows"
as an expression of surprise. To "eat crow" is described in the, Australian,
Macquarie Dictionary as a, presumably, colloqualism to mean to be forced to
do or say something very unpleasant or humiliating.

Hugo Zweep

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at calt.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.06.02 (04) [E]

From: Andrys Onsman

Hey Ron

So THAT is why South Australians are called Croweaters. Mind you, one of
their football teams, the Adelaide Crows (!), have been making other teams
eat plenty of crow/humble pie over the last few seasons.

Break my sorrow,
Andrys

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