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The scribbly dialect, which zigzags around in a seemingly random and indecipherable pattern, found its place in Australian literature and culture.

In 1955, Judith Wright wrote her poem 'Scribbly Gum': The gum-tree stands by the spring/ I peeled its splitting bark/ And found the written track/ Of a life I could not read.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2012/November/scribbly-gum-scribbles-an-ancient-dialect-written-in-the-trees

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