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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Quaup : Good (Nind 1831: 48)
Kouaup : Good (Bon) (Dumont D’Urville 1834: 2)
gwab-ba : good, pretty (Grey 1839)
Gwabba : good (Moore 1842: 167)
Gwab-ba : Well (Symmons 1842: 12)
Gwabba : good (Brady 1845: 23)
guaba : good thing (Salvado 1851: 260)
Quab : Good (Ranford 1875: 146)
quabba : Good (Barlee (Curr) 1886: 357)
gwabba : Good (Armstrong (Curr) 1886: 335)
quab : Good (Chester (Curr) 1886: 391)
quaber : Good (Gifford (Curr) 1886: 363)
quabba : Good (Goldsworthy (Curr) 1886: 341)
quob : Good (Graham (Curr) 1886: 351)
quobba : Good (Hackett (Curr) 1886: 345)
guabba : Good (Hester (Curr) 1886: 361)
quab : Good (Hossell, Knight & Spencer (Curr) 1886: 389)
quabba : Good (Knight (Curr) 1886: 333)
quaba : Good (Scott (Curr) 1886: 347)
quabba : Good (Small (Curr) 1886: 359)
quabba : Good (Whitfield (Curr) 1886: 327)
Gwabba : Safe, safely (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 33)
Gwab : Convalescent (Balbuk; Bates XII, 2B, 15: 23)
Gwab’ : Merry (Kajaman; Bates XII, 2B, 11: 29)
Gwabba : Good (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 19)
gwap : good (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Gwabba : Convalescent (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 22)
Gwabba : Beautiful (good) (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 23)
kwob, kwawb : good (Rae 1913: 2)
Kwobbrup : a good place (W J Rae, Native Vocabulary, 1913.)
quab : good (Bussell 1930: 11)
kwob-bah : Good (Hammond 1938: 19)
kwabidak : good (Tommy Cowan, Tommy Kickett (O’Grady) 1960)
kwop : well (Douglas 1968: 101)
quobaduk : good (Bennell 1978)
qwaap : good, well (Von Brandenstein 1988: 91)
gwop : good (Douglas 1991: 22)
koobidak : pretty (Whitehurst 1992: 44)
kwaba : good, well (N,SW) (Dench 1994: 188)
Kwabba : Good (Richards 1994: 128)
Kwoba : good (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)