How to Speak New Zealand

How to Speak New ZealandHow 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 (Zillund) 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 withHow to Speak New Zealand - McKennock
  • 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
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The New Zealand Alphabet - How to speak New Zillund

New Zillund Alphabet

More Examples of: How to Speak New Zealand

  • Fear hear - blonde
  • Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
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  • 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
  • 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.

 Perfect Woman Competition in New Zealand

The owner of a bar in Wanaka is holding a competition to find the 'perfect woman', the prize is $NZ1,000 and tickets for a rugby game.Pool table for the wife

Amongst the tasks the aspirants will be expected to undertake are:

  • Back a trailer load of hay
  • Change a car tyre
  • Clear a pool table
  • Darn a sock
  • Lift a ram into shearing position

As reported in the Sun newspaper in Australia

Speak Australish

  • Floordrobe - Someone who spreads their clothes around the bedroom floor
  • Fitness centre -  A place where they leave no stern untoned
  • Salad dodger - Fatso
  • Tanorexia - Devoted to getting a suntan

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