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Sep 23, 2016 · One of the most prevalent theories is that the word's origins goes back centuries to Africa, where the Zulu and Xhosa word udonga made it into South African English and Afrikaans. "We've dropped ...
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Where Does The Word Donga Come From? The word donga itself gets thrown around a lot in mining and construction, but the actual meaning of the word has an interesting and unclear history dating back to 1900 when it first saw use in Australia.
1870s. donga is of multiple origins. Apparently partly a borrowing from an African language. Partly a borrowing from a language of New Guinea. See etymology.
- From Dongas to Modular Buildings
- What About A demountable?
- Aren’T They All Just Hot Boxes?
- The Future of Ausco Modular Buildings
While the colloquial name, donga, abounds, it is a misnomer as they really are modular buildings. Modular buildings differ from most building construction as they are manufactured on a factory production line. Ausco has five manufacturing facilities around Australia, for instance. With a standard structure and the ability to interconnect, these bui...
You would be hard pressed to find someone in Australia who hadn’t been educated at some point or another in a demountable classroom. And a significant number of those would have been Ausco buildings! A demountable building is also a modular building and the term demountable probably best describes one of the key features of these types of buildings...
It is possibly one of the strongest memories or experiences most of us have from our time in dongas or demountables. Stuffy air, BO, heat and dust. Yet a lot has changed in modular buildings and has had to with the increasing number of site offices and remote accommodation for regional and remote infrastructure projects. Not to mention Centres of N...
For 60 years, Ausco Modular has been designing, manufacturing, hiring, selling, installing and removing their buildings all around Australia. Ausco buildings have been the spaces in which Australia was educated like Balaklava High School. Spaces in which major infrastructure were project managed and engineered such as WestConnex M5 in Sydney. Space...
Danganronpa(Japanese: ダンガンロンパ)is a Japanese video gamefranchise created by Kazutaka Kodakaand developed and owned by Spike Chunsoft(formerly Spike). The series primarily surrounds various groups of apparent high-school students who are forced into murdering each other by a robotic teddy bear named Monokuma.
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Definition of donga noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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