[Fictionary] A puzzle while we're waiting

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

My guess: bandicoot is the only one whose name isn't from an Australian
language.

That's not something I knew offhand! I remembered the story that the word
"kangaroo" was based on a misunderstanding, so I thought that was gonna be
the answer, but that story turned out to be false, so I did some more
digging.



On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 10:02 PM Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
wrote:

> Which of these words is not like the others?
>
> potoroo
> dunnart
> bilby
> wallaby
> koala
> wallaroo
> quoll
> bandicoot
> wombat
> kangaroo
>
> Pierre
> --
> Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.
>
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