Editing Didgeridoo (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''didgeridoo'' is not of [[Aboriginal Australian languages|Aboriginal Australian linguistic]] origin and is considered to be an [[Onomatopoeia|onomatopoetic]] word. The earliest occurrences of the word in print include a 1908 edition of the ''[[Hamilton Spectator (Australia)|Hamilton Spectator]]'' referring to a {{"'}}did-gery-do' (hollow bamboo)",<ref>{{cite news |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225891921 |title=Retribution |newspaper=Hamilton Spectator |issue=7567 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 October 1908 |access-date=28 January 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> a 1914 edition of ''[[The Northern Territory Times and Gazette]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3281806 |title=Correspondence |work=[[The Northern Territory Times and Gazette]] |volume=XXXVIII |issue=2145 |location=Northern Territory, Australia |date=17 December 1914 |access-date=28 January 2017 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and a 1919 issue of ''[[Smith's Weekly]]'', in which it was referred to as a "didjerry" and was said to produce the sound "didjerry, didjerry, didjerry and so on ad infinitum".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://andc.anu.edu.au/australian-words/meanings-origins/d |title=Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms: D |publisher=[[Australian National Dictionary Centre]] |access-date=27 January 2017}}</ref>

A rival explanation, that ''didgeridoo'' is a [[Corruption (linguistics)|corruption]] of the [[Irish language|Irish]] phrase {{lang|ga|dúdaire dubh}} or [[Scottish Gaelic]] {{lang|gd|dùdaire dúth}}, is controversial.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.flinders.edu.au/news/articles/?fj09v13s02 |title=It's as Irish as – er – didgeridoo |publisher=[[Flinders University]] |work=Flinders Journal |date=10–23 June 2002 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20020819082521/http://www.flinders.edu.au/news/articles/?fj09v13s02 |archive-date=19 August 2002 |access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref> Irish {{lang|ga|dúdaire}} or {{lang|ga|dúidire}}, and Scottish Gaelic {{lang|gd|dùdaire}}, are nouns that, depending on the context, may mean "trumpeter", "[[Hum (sound)|hum]]mer", "[[croon]]er" or "[[wikt:puff|puff]]er", while Irish {{lang|ga|dubh}} means "black", and Scottish Gaelic {{lang|gd|dúth}} means "[[Indigenous peoples|native]]".