Browse by category
Book of New Zealand Words by Dianne Bardsley
$18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Away laughing/O for awesome/Box of birds/By gorry! This accessible yet definitive little text contains over 1,500 samples from New Zealand’s distinctive vocabulary. For the first time since Orsman’s 1997 Dictionary of New Zealand English here are fresh New Zealandisms and examples of their use, from bot ...Show more
In the Paddock and on the Run: The Language of Rural New Zealand by Dianne Bardsley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
This is the first book to explore the rich heritage of language the rural sector has generated. For two hundred years people have come from all over the world to work in New Zealand's rural enterprises. From this linguistic melting pot, which includes the addition of indigenous Maori words, phrases and ...Show more
Q and Eh - Questions and Answers on Language with a Kiwi Twist by Laurie Bauer; Dianne Bardsley; Janet Holmes; Paul Warren
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: good-very good
Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where does 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thin ...Show more
0 - 2 of 3