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| Thread ID: 80091 | 2007-06-11 06:55:00 | Does Metla live in Wanganui or Whanganui? | Sweep (90) | PC World Chat |
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| 558120 | 2007-06-11 06:55:00 | And is Mount Egmont Mount Taranaki? | Sweep (90) | ||
| 558121 | 2007-06-11 07:41:00 | Neither. He lives in Wangavegas :p | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 558122 | 2007-06-11 07:49:00 | And is Mount Egmont Mount Taranaki? Yes. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558123 | 2007-06-11 08:15:00 | Wanganui; dialectally the h is silent. To Maori outside the Aotea region, the h is not silent. Just like Waitara is actually Whaitara And its Mount Taranaki/Egmont, I prefer Taranaki over Egmont |
Myth (110) | ||
| 558124 | 2007-06-11 09:50:00 | How can the "H" be nominated as silent when its not even in the word? Thats like saying New Zealand has a silent "B" in it. Shouldn't matter if your from up North, down South or the back blocks of China, Its still Written and pronounced Wanganui. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 558125 | 2007-06-11 11:13:00 | Easy - the city is Wanganui and the river Whanganui - so just figure out if he lives in the river. | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 558126 | 2007-06-11 11:30:00 | How can the "H" be nominated as silent when its not even in the word? Thats like saying New Zealand has a silent "B" in it. Shouldn't matter if your from up North, down South or the back blocks of China, Its still Written and pronounced Wanganui.I meant in Te Reo Maori. The h isn't in Waitara either, does that mean its not supposed to be there. Or does it mean that european (when asking what this place name was or that place name) didn't hear the wh (f in english) because it was pronounced as w so automatically ASSUMED it didn't have an h in it? Yes it is written as Wanganui, but only coz thats the european way |
Myth (110) | ||
| 558127 | 2007-06-11 11:34:00 | And I prefer Egmont over Taranaki. | Tukapa (62) | ||
| 558128 | 2007-06-11 11:45:00 | I meant in Te Reo Maori. The h isn't in Waitara either, does that mean its not supposed to be there. Or does it mean that european (when asking what this place name was or that place name) didn't hear the wh (f in english) because it was pronounced as w so automatically ASSUMED it didn't have an h in it? Yes it is written as Wanganui, but only coz thats the european way The locals 100 years ago pronounced it without an H, the locals in present times pronounce it without an H. Since the dawn of written word in NZ it has never been written with an H. Now some out of towners want to bend the place to fit there view. They can go to hell. Take note that the same groups that insist it has an H also pronounce it with the H. There is no H. Having no written language the concept of a silent letter wouldn't have made much sense would it?. The fact is that the Maori industry don't think it sounds Maori enough, Even though thats the way it was and is. I'm no more concerned with Te Reo then I am concerned with the "European way" you speak of, Im a New Zealander, surrounded by New Zealanders. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 558129 | 2007-06-11 11:52:00 | And further more who ever is coaching our news readers on pronunciations of local areas has to be taking the piss, They must be trying to distort it as far as possible just to make it hard to pronounce and thus "more maori". I have heard place names mentioned that I have been around all my life and not recognized where they were talking about until pics were shown. |
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