Aborigine? Aubergine?!

Question: For the person who thought aborigine was a french word for eggplant, I think they are confusing this with aubergine. Are you dyslexic? An aborigine is a native person.

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Answers: For the person who thought aborigine was a french word for eggplant, I think they are confusing this with aubergine. Are you dyslexic? An aborigine is a native person.

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Great question!
Even though the word "aborigine", generally pertains to the native people of Australia, it can also used in relationship to other native people(s), ex. - the aboriginal tribes of Native Americans, Africans, Pacific Islands and others, as the asker indicated in her last comment.
It simply means native people, who have been in a particular place from the beginning.

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Aren't they Australian natives.

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Wow.

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Lol. Thanks, Miss French to English Dictionary :o)

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amen sister! give aborigines, the first people of Australia, some respect!

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An unfortunate, but rather funny malapropism.

Although a slang corruption of the Italian word for eggplant (melanzana) is sometimes use to refer to a dark-skinned person. Definite NOT "PC".

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