The name of the Kangaroo came from ...

Hello, my friend! Hahahah, where have you read this? Check your sources, if it is a reliable one it might be true. Also, try checking on Wikipedia if you feel like wanting to discover it. This is a funny explanation for the name Kangaroo. Now, if the aboriginal people said Kan Ghu Ru, why did they understand KanGAroo instead of KanGUroo? Here in Brazil, we know this animal as Kanguru, just like the Aboriginal People tried to say but without the H. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

I do not know if that story is true or not because I have never heard that before,but that is very interesting,and I think kangaroo is the perfect name for the animals and it is kind of funny if it is true since they got the perfect name from a misunderstanding where the people were trying to tell the English settlers that they did not understand them.

Hahaha, I have no idea if that is true or not but it is definitely funny. Probably just a joke. But you have to admit it is a good one.

Might be, who knows...

I've heard a similar story but slightly different... From what I understand, people that English settlers were asking weren't really from that area so one of them turned to them & said what he said, which means, "I don't know!"... Again, I'm not sure how true this is but that's what I've heard...

Hi alkurishy, That is very funny it may be right. By the way I am still not recieving your discussions in my e-mail box, I only found it by chance. Tamara

LOL ..Its so funny ...I have no idea abt this...is it reallly true.........

I am one who likes to go to the search engine when I want to find out about something and this is what I found out. It looks like this is a true accounting from what you posted here. This is what it said:The word kangaroo derives from the Guugu Yimidhirr word gangurru, referring to a grey kangaroo. The name was first recorded as "Kangooroo or Kanguru" on 4 August 1770, by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook on the banks of the Endeavour River at the site of modern Cooktown, when HM Bark Endeavour was beached for almost seven weeks to repair damage sustained on the Great Barrier Reef. A common legend about the kangaroo's English name is that it came from the Aboriginal words for "I don't understand you." According to this legend, Captain James Cook and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks were exploring Australia when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called. The local responded "Kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand you", which Cook took to be the name of the creature Kangaroo soon became adopted into standard English where it has come to mean any member of the family of kangaroos and wallabies. Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers, jacks, or old men; females are does, flyers, or jills, and the young ones are joeys. The collective noun for kangaroos is a mob, troop, or court. Kangaroos are sometimes colloquially referred to as roos.