Colin Stephen TonksKnownAs Colin
Was our post on the Etymology of Aborigine/Aboriginal deleted? Etymology: From Latin ab (“from”) + origine, ablative singular of origo (“earliest beginning, lineage, origin”). Adjective: ab origine _ From the origin; from the beginning. However, the Australian Aborigine associate, erroneously, the name with 'abnormal' and, therefore, consider it to be offensive. Reference: 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 6.
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