Some think it is the English word jabber, with the firstletter pronounced as in German; but it is pronounced by theaborigines yabba, without a final r. rata means red-hot, and theremay be a reference to the scarlet appearance of the flower infull bloom. These worm snakes areperfectly harmless, although, like the Slow-Worms and theirallies in other countries, they are popularly supposed to bevery poisonous. 3: Being clerk of the City Court, I know that the word originatedin the very Irish and amusing way in which the then well-knownSergeant Dalton pronou
`The Australasian,' Nov.
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