The English language as it is spoken and written in New Zealand.
what is happening to the humble letter 'i' in New Zealandese?
Example sentencesExamples
- "Social pests" is New Zealandese for land monopolists.
- I'd have stayed behind in Central Otago for a few lessons in diction and New Zealandese.
- It never occurred to me that that bombastic yachting commentator would become the ambassador for New Zealandese all over the world.
- Talking New Zealandese as if it's my only language.
- He now had to satisfy his expectant interviewer with some New Zealandese.
- The university teacher, she wrote, must visit the "infant room" — New Zealandese for "kindergarten".
- The language we speak is New Zealandese, with its own idiom and pronunciation.
- I remind myself to convert miles per hour into knots and even learn to speak New Zealandese.
- He also won three bottles of champagne or, in New Zealandese, champers.
- He quotes New Zealand poetry (in its original New Zealandese).