the aboriginal inhabitants of the wagga wagga region were the wiradjuri people and the term "wagga" and derivatives of that word in the wiradjuri aboriginal language is thought to mean "crow". to create the plural, the wiradjuri repeat a word, thus 'wagga wagga' translates to 'the place of many crows'. this has been recognised in the latin name of the roman catholic diocese of wagga wagga as "dioecesis corvopolitana" ("corvus" being the latin word for crow). other translations render the word 'wagga' as "reeling (a sick man or a dizzy man)" and "to dance, slide or grind".