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One origin could be that budgerigar may be a mispronunciation or alteration of the Gamilaraay word gidjirrigaa (Aboriginal pronunciation: [ɡ̊iɟiriɡaː]) [13] [14] or gijirragaa from the Yuwaalaraay. [15] Another possible origin is that budgerigar might be a modified form of budgery or boojery (Australian English slang for "good") and gar ...
[citation needed] The Australian budgerigar, also known as "budgie", Melopsittacus undulatus, is probably the most common parakeet. It was first described by zoologists in 1891. It is the most popular species of parakeet kept as a pet in North America and Europe. A rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri).
The OED has added hundreds of new words and sub-entries to its ever-growing online list — and there are some gloriously random ones in the mix.
Budgie (band), a Welsh heavy metal band from Cardiff Budgie, the debut album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie; Budgie (musician) (born 1957), English drummer; Budgie, a British television series starring popstar Adam Faith; Budgie the Little Helicopter, a British animated television series
The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...
The US economy kicked off 2025 by adding 143,000 jobs in January, fewer than expected; but the unemployment rate dipped to 4%, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Candice Bergen’s husband Marshall Rose died on Saturday, Feb. 15. He was 88. Rose died from complications with Parkinson's disease, according to a Feb. 17 New York Times obituary. The real ...
A form of social grooming among birds, in which one bird preens another or a pair does so mutually. At times it may be used to redirect or sublimate aggression, such as one bird assuming a solicitation posture to indicate its non-aggression and invite allopreening by the aggressive individual.