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NZ maori pronounciation catches tourist's out all the time.
whaka = F**k-an as in there is a town call whaktane (f**k-a-tahn-a) and then there is onehunga. pronounced oni-hunga. once heard a tourist try and explain to a bus driver that he wanted to go to one hunga. driver corrected him, told him how to pronounce that partuiculer place name. tourist replied that in that case he'd just come from oni tree hill (the one tree hill made famous by the U2 song) don't quite know if i made myself clear, but it's funny to us kiwi's! |
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