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Login Subscribe About us. You know what 'whakapapa' and 'Waitangi Day' are about, will have an inkling of what 'Maori day off' or 'Maori Car' refer to, even in these PC times, but have you heard of a 'Maori Cannon' or a 'Ngati-Blow'? These words all chatter together as part of John Reynolds ' installation of 1, odd small canvases on the walls of Peter McLeavey Gallery in Cuba Street. Image: Cloud , Presented as part of the Sydney Biennale There's a canvas per piece of language in Reynolds rough hand, silver marker on black paint. Orsman's book, to quote its introduction, "records the history of words and particular senses of words which are in some way distinctively or predominantly, though not always exclusively 'New Zealand' in meaning or use".

New Zealanders are a breed apart. They approach life with a wicked sense of humour, and in particular a healthy sense of life's absurdities. And they never met a word they didn't want to make shorter. This list has been compiled with the assistance of the many patriotic New Zealand staff in the Lonely Planet office. Choice aye - all good As - use to intensify the preceding adjective eg 'sweet as', 'hungry as ' Bro - short for brother, term of friendship used with alarming regularity for exemplary use of the term 'bro', check out the beached whale video Chur - Kiwi for thanks, cool, sweet as, etc.

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