Speaking Kiwi
 

Found this, slightly different to the usual one of these that kicks around, thought it was quite amusing in places, dissapointed that Munce isn't on there though :rofl:

Speak Kiwi

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We had such a laugh today going through the alphabet today. Daughter doesn't think she'll be understand what they're saying now. There is no way on this God's would I have got one doe...or whatever it was....too funny!

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:rofl::rofl: Love it!!
Yis!! B x

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Love it :thumbsup:

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Excellent! My husband and I we're fascinated by the kiwi's speech. We thought it was a bit of a south african, australian mix.... Whatever we love it and quite regularly enjoy a fush & chup dinner since our return home :)

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Ha Ha :rofl: enjoyed those a lot, Bevissa

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Been a while since this was last posted ... enjoy.:thumbsup:

How to Speak New Zulander
(for bist effict, rid these out aloud)

Milburn - capital of Victoria
Peck - to fill a suitcase
pissed aside - chemical which kills insects
pigs - for hanging out washing with
pug - large pink animal with a curly tail
nin tin dough - computer game
munnwe stroney - soup
min- male of the species
mess kara - eye makeup
mcKennock - person who fixes cars
Mere - Mayor
leather - foam produced from soap
lift - departed
Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman
kittle crusps - potato chips
Ken's - Cairns
jungle bills - Christmas carol
inner me - enemy
guess - vapour
fush - marine creature
fitter cheney - type of pasta
ever cardeau - avocado
fear hear - blonde
ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
ear roebucks - exercise at gym
duffy cult - not easy
amejen - visualise
chuck - very young poultry
bug hut - popular recording
bun button - been bitten by insect
beard - a place to sleep
sucks peck - half a dozen beers
Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline
beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests
veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden
one doze - well known computer program
brudge - structure spanning a stream
sex - one less then sivven
tin - one more then nine
iggs ecktly - precisely
cuds - children
cuttin - baby cat
sivven sucks sivven - large Boeing aircraft
sivven four sivven - larger Boeing aircraft
earplane - large flying marchine
beggage chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport

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Ha Ha Ha :rofl: Thats cheered up a miserable summer's morning here!! How much trouble will all us newbies get in when we eventually get there!!!!:thumbsup: Bevissa

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Bevissa stop posting on here. I need to go out and do stuff and i keep reading stuff you've written.....anyway back to the post.....Its strange...I read it out loud to hubby this morning and I sound like an africaans speaking....well crap africaans actually. When I hear Kiwi's talk they don't sound like that. :eek:

Must be me
x

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Likewise Maria, likewise :rofl: Bevissa xxx

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Enjoyed that!
I stayed with my son in Wellington for four months this year and he warned me, "don`t try to speak like the Kiwis, they will think you are taking the mickey" My biggest mistake, and I blush at the thought, is asking some people in NZ, "are you Australian!?" The NZ accent is not like the Aussie one at all, once I got to know people and chatted to them I realised it was the vowels which made the NZ accent what it is.
One poster said they thought the Kiwi accent was similar to the South African, I have also thought that.
Pat.

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Come off it....

It is like Australian.

I still get them confused after 3 years here (on and off).

The vowel thing is a red herring (rud hirring) because most of the time it's more subtle than the headlines suggest.

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Thanks Will,
Well, if you have been there for three years and are still confused, I can be forgiven, my son has been there for thirteen years so perhaps he`s had more time to get it right.
One lady I met in the eye clinic on Cuba Street I spoke to was born in Australia but moved to Wellington when she got married many years ago, so she had a mixture of both accents.
Pat.

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I met a woman at work the other week...didn't know her from Adam....a real soft accent...Aussie or Kiwi......Kiwi I thought, but knew just not to ask. I eventually got the subject round to where she was from....Bleddy Adelaide but been here (UK) for years. Its the same with Canadians and yanks, I can just about spot the difference but would never try and sound clever by asking...Ho Humm! I on the tuther hand spakes the Quean's inglish:sneaky:

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If you are going to ask its safer to assume they are Kiwi or Canadian and get it wrong than to accuse a Kiwi of being a Aussie or a Canadian of being a Yank :thumbup: