Murri

Peter Pinney, in his world war II novel "Signaller Johnson's Secret War", placed the terms "Murri" and "Burri" in some of his character's mouths, as well as "Boongs" generally perjorative.

languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

BOOK: What kind of contemporary romance novel includes its hardworking policy-making Murri heroine debating race relations with her whitefella policeman love interest, lucid dreams of international sexy times, and a group of delightful female friends being delightful?

Adult Fic, I Read That Too karenhealey 2010

Ilyas Khuri: writes an excellent article about the horrible May Al-Murri, who just died.

Monday, March 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

Kills most of the slithies, and their Bulls, and the Murri and the Nunga in their Dreamtime too, far as any know.

EP97: Cinderella Suicide 2007

Kills most of the slithies, and their Bulls, and the Murri and the Nunga in their Dreamtime too, far as any know.

EP97: Cinderella Suicide 2007

I'm a gen-X left-wing Sydneysider, who knows and would self-consciously use Koori and Murri occasionally, and Indigenous, Aboriginal or Black habitually.

languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

I've heard Bama around Cairns, and Murri further south.

languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

I was familiar with "koori" in Melbourne and became aware that it didn't cover all aborigines at the same time I heard "Murri", still while in Melbourne.

languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

I'm in Sydney, also in Koori country and am familiar with that term and also with Murri and Yolngu and their particular regions.

languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

For some reason I never thought of it being used the same way as "Koori" or "Murri".

languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005