Comments on: Ranga

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:37:08 +0000

I’ve just come back from Brunei where a local told me the history of the word ranga. To celebrate this knowledge I bought a t-shirt bearing the legend….”Keep calm and hug an orangutang.” Green lettering on a white t-shirt….

By: Bob Joyce

Bob Joyce — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:17:21 +0000

“The first written evidence for the term as applied to red-haired people appears in Australian newspapers in the early 2000s”
That may well be the first written evidence, but I well remember in the early 1970s, a Sea Scout in Hobart with the nickname Ranga, so named for his red hair as much as his slouching stance, which gave the impression of exceptionally long arms.

By: ross.cornwill@gmail.com

ross.cornwill@gmail.com — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:25:55 +0000

Sure is time for an appreciation party to emerge.

By: Holden Back

Holden Back — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:07:41 +0000

Time for a Ranga Pride movement, surely?