G'day all,

I'm glad to see that MMario came up with the Deaming story of the emu egg.

Sorcha: As MMario hinted at the start of the posting, emus are from Australia, not South America ... but, it isn't widely known that we sort of pinched the name from South America's Rhea, which was also referred to by the Portugese name for a crane emas. Quite a lot of the English military types in the early settlement had spent time in assorted South American wars and a few of their terms were naturalised in Australia.

Regards,

Bob Bolton