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bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
In Pirates of Penzance the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter, sings a song in which the refrain includes the words
'so do his sisters and his cousins whom he reckons by the dozens'
especially his cousins and his aunts.
'Aunts' is pronounced in the English language fashion ie 'aren't' not 'ants' as the people of the new colonies would have it. (Read Roald Dahl's tale of what happens when yoyu mispronounce this word.)