“BURGHER BUGGERS” “BURGHER BUGGERS, TOLL-BELL TUGGERS THAT IS WHO WE ARE PORTUGUESE, DUTCH & BRITISH MUGGERS EVERY ONE A “STAR” WE HAD TO LEAVE OUR MOTHER-LAND THE ISLE OF SRI LANKA BUT WE WILL STILL BE BURGHER BUGGERS NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE”.(EVEN THOUGH) BURGHER BUGGERS BECAME BEGGARS AFTER DRINKING WHISKY (THEN) BURGHER BUGGERS, ONE & ALL STARTED TO GET FRISKY(WHICH WAS RISKY) ENDING WITH MORE BURGHER BUGGERS” & I could go on & on, but what’s the USE, we are “Better Burgher Buggers”& in Oz., we cannot LOSE”. An European group, historically from Sri Lanka, formerly “Ceylon, Seylan, Taprobane or half a dozen others, you could name”, consisting mainly of the male-line descendants of European Colonists from the 16th to the 20th Centuries, mostly Portuguese, Dutch & British, coupled with local Sinhalese. Today, the Mother-tongue of the Burghers is English but historically, other languages were spoken by the people, ...
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