How to Speak New Zealand
These examples of ‘How to speak New Zealand’ were sent to Will by an old school friend named Paul Garrod, who emigrated to New Zealand from England a while ago.
What helped me to understand New Zealand speak, was to read each item out loud:
- Peck – to fill a suitcase
- Min – male of the species
- Milburn – capital of Victoria
- Pigs – for hanging out washing with
- Pug – large animal with a curly tail
- Nin tin dough – computer game
- Munner stroney – soup
- 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
- Jumbo – pet name for someone called Jim
- Jungle Bills – Christmas carol
- Inner me – enemy
- Guess – vapour
- Fush – marine creatures
- Fitter cheney – type of pasta
- Ever cardeau – avocado
More Examples of: How to Speak New Zealand
- Fear hear – blonde
- Ear – mix of nitrogen and oxygen
- Ear roebucks – exercise at the gym
- Duffy cult – not easy
- Day old 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
- Amejen – visualise
- One Doze – well known computer program
- Brudge – structure spanning a stream
- Sex – one less than sivven
- Tin – one more than nine
- Iggs Ecktly – Precisely
- Earplane – large flying machine
- Beggage Chucken – place to leave your suitcase at the earport
- Sivven Sucks Sivven – large Boeing aircraft
- Sivven Four Sivven – larger Boeing aircraft
- Cuds – children
- Pits – domestic animals
Come on New Zealand, tell us Brits how we sound to you.
