What is the entymology of the nickname "Digger"?
Thnx! Frank
Question for our Australian friends
Jan 07, 2005
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Rob
From the Readers Digest Universal Dictionary......
Digger......
- Informal. A person, especially a soldier, from New Zealnad or Australia. [Sense 4, with allusion of Australian gold-miners.]
Ken (who is not Australian - sorry!)
Digger?
One who digs holes to get out of the way of Trukish bullets at Anzac Cove, c.1915
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Leigh Edmonds
"Leigh Edmonds" wrote in news:pDCDd.108766$ snipped-for-privacy@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
Thanks guys!
You do know that Digger got run over by a car right ?
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Song reference?
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Scott AUSTRALIA
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