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Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Here’s an interesting fact about New Zealand. In place names, they pronounce the letters “wh” with an “f” sound. This gets a little dicey when places have names like Whakapapa or Whakaari and I couldn’t help blushing when I tried to pronounce them like a local. None of the Kiwis thought it was weird though, so we just had to get used to it. [read on]