That is Charles Sturt s Pondebadgery I am not 100 sure it is an Indigneous word though I said the place was referred to by it That remains correct Multiple layer stuff I suspect that ponde is cheyanne or sioux as talking to those people its their word but Sturt may very well have made that name up and I suspect he did Some Sioux etc were very much in the Gundagai area but Sturt may have known the word before he went downriver It seems he left a ponde downriver also Another aussie word that is native american is creek We do not blink at its use ever Sturt did record the pondebadgery word What pondebadgery refers to is appropriate and is in context and association just the vowles etc do not sound to me that ponde is a Wiradjuri word NOTE I did not note that it was a wiradjuri word I only note Wiradjuri words if they have a known ethnology Sturt records Warby being at Pondebadgery This is the g g granddad of Ben Warby who holds the world water speed record Warby does not record pondebadgery nor does anyone else in all of Australia s story that I am aware of and I have looked extensively Just Sturt does though badgery or budgeri is previously recorded Charles Sturt s Pondebadgery is more correct than what it has been edited to as that edit seperates Sturt from the word when no one knows that at all so its factually incorrect and should not be done as its making something that was correct as it stood into fiction The cod story is very correct I can t vouch for the use of ponde in it as being of Indigneous origin though