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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Pooye : Eggs (Nind 1831: 49)
Poie, boiel, pouoi : Rock (Pierre) (Dumont D’Urville 1834: 4)
bo-ye : stone (Grey 1839)
Bu-yi billanăk. : Stony (Moore 1842: 161)
Bu-yi : rock (Symmons 1842: 5)
poa : stopper (Salvado 1851: 264)
boya : Stone (Barlee (Curr) 1886: 357)
booyee : Stone (Armstrong (Curr) 1886: 335)
boyer : Egg (Gifford (Curr) 1886: 362)
booye : Stone (Goldsworthy (Curr) 1886: 385)
booy : Stone (Graham (Curr) 1886: 351)
boya : Stone (Hackett (Curr) 1886: 345)
boey : Stone (Hester (Curr) 1886: 361)
booi : Stone (Hossell, Knight & Spencer (Curr) 1886: 389)
booya : Stone (Knight (Curr) 1886: 333)
boyer : Stone (Monger (Curr) 1886: 323)
boyeya : Stone (Scott (Curr) 1886: 347)
booye : Stone (Small (Curr) 1886: 359)
bwoon : stone (Taylor (Curr) 1886)
boya : Stone (Whitfield (Curr) 1886: 327)
Poi : rock (Wainbret, Helms 1896: 326)
Booya : Pebbles (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 31)
Bwaia : Granite (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 15)
Boya : Stone (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 12)
boy’a balart : rock (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Boya : Granite (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 15)
Boy-a : Rock (Samuel Isaacs; Brockman 1949: 17)
Bwaia : Granite (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 16)
Bwaia : Stone (Kajaman; Bates XII 2B, 11: 16)
bui, buyi : money (also stone) (Rae 1913: 2)
Boyangoora : Hill people (Mr J Hope 15/05/1916 – Information supplied by Tommy Bimbar.)
bouyer : money (Bussell 1930: 12)
Boydine : glass stony country (Old Settlers of WA 1949: 79)
Boya : rock or stone (Glauert 1950: 1)
boya : stone (Tommy Cowan, Tommy Kickett (O’Grady) 1960)
poy : cash, money (Douglas 1968: 85)
Boy : stone (Davis 1969: 4)
boy : stone (Bennell 1978)
puiy : rock, stone, metal, money (Von Brandenstein 1988: 59)
boy, boya : rock (Douglas 1991: 21)
boya : rock (Whitehurst 1992: 45)
boy : egg (S) (Dench 1994: 184)
Boya : Rock (Richards 1994: 127)
Boya : money; rock, stone (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)