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A fact from -up appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the suffix "-up" in Western Australian place names means "place of" in a dialect of the Noongar language?

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Rivers

Balgarup River
Carbunup River
Dalyup River
Dandalup River
Jerdacuttup River
Munglinup River
Pallinup River
Waychinicup River (unsigned addition from Matt...)

Maybe - but you look closer - some are out of the indicated noongar area Satu Suro 12:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have not even started to look at where they are located yet! Hmmm, beautiful theories being shot down by ugly facts. :( Must be a reaosn why these rivers were given Noongar names despite their location. -- Mattinbgn\^talk

Boganup?

Hmm.... -- Mattinbgn\^talk 06:38, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.baldivis-childrens-forest.com.au/nyoongar_culture.htm
- In -up on 2011-05-20 21:27:07, 404 Not Found
- In -up on 2011-05-31 04:29:36, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 04:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]