Colin Stephen Tonks
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.