These grumpy old pūkeko need to get off the grass
AFTERNOONS/RNZ Emile Donovan discovers even those who can't speak te reo Māori know more than they think, according to new research from the University of Canterbury. OPINION: When the writer Bill Bryson was a young newspaper sub-editor, he wrote his first book about English. “When I realised that there were vast expanses of English usage – linguistic Serengetis – that I was not clear about at all, I wrote to a kindly editor at Penguin Books and impetuously suggested that there was a need for a simple guide to the more confusing aspects of the language and that I was prepared to unde...
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