Anyone... anyone...
We were thinking about it and realized that there is no easy way for you guys to ask us questions or whatever on our blog. It is possible to post responses to specific posts but if you were wondering, for instance, what Kiwis call flip-flops or what the translation of "Aotearoa" is there would be no place for you to ask that question.
So, consider this an open forum for any and all questions you may have. We are not experts on New Zealand but we can at least try to answer them. Fire away.
Matt
5 comments:
It would be KEEN to read a post about common words that differ between American English and NZ English.
Interesting...I have recently been eating a fish call Barracundi...which is supposed to have come from down there. Have you had it? Is it as good down there are it is up here?
David
Ok, here's a partial list of Kiwisms:
(English) - (Kiwi)
Gravel Road - Metal Road
Flip-Flop - Jandal
Bathing suit - Togs
Trunk - Boot
Excellent! - Sweet As!
Welcome/Hello - Kia ora (Maori)
New Zealand - Aotearoa
Pick-up Truck - Ute (rhymes with boot)
Kid with too much money to spend on his car - Boy Racer
Granola - Museli
Pepper - Capsicum
Zucchini (vomit) - Courgette (vomit)
Pasta - Paster
Ketchup - Tomato Sauce
Summer House - Bach
College - Uni
High School - College
Trail - Track
Hiking - Tramping
Rapelling - Absailing
zee (z) - zed (z)
Sheep - Sheep
Chickens - Chooks
Marker - Felt
Scotch Tape - Cello Tape
We are too poor to buy fish here and neither of us is that big on fish anyway (especially Carrie who is vegetarian). Most of our meals when we cook for ourselves are pasta and burritos.
Food here is not as large a part of the culture as it is in many other places. The Maori definitely have strong traditions surrounding food but their foods are not as readily accessible. We have not yet managed to attend a "hangi" but would very much like to. If you want to imagine the majority of food here it is just basically English.
In the definitions, you list pepper, but you don't say if you mean the spice or the vegetable. Which is it?
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