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| Thread ID: 64386 | 2005-12-13 12:56:00 | Where do you live....? | Mr Wetzyl (362) | PC World Chat |
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| 412334 | 2005-12-13 23:12:00 | That's an impressive resource, thanks for the link :) | Jester (13) | ||
| 412335 | 2005-12-13 23:12:00 | Looking at these maps of where youse guys live, I need to ask a question: Can any tell me the base language or peoples from which all these towns are named? They look mighty strange to US eyes and although we have some strange names of our own, they are placed quite far and few apart. Your names seem to be the rule rather than an exception. I find them very interesting..but not very pronounceable...maybe after a few beers! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 412336 | 2005-12-13 23:44:00 | Hi Graven. Try being specific... lookkee here... (www.zoomin.co.nz) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 412337 | 2005-12-13 23:46:00 | Interesting....in my case it finds my street and house number in Motueka but shows a map without the street. The map relates to when the area was tobacco fields a number of years ago. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 412338 | 2005-12-13 23:50:00 | My House is on this road (www.zoomin.co.nz) | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 412339 | 2005-12-13 23:54:00 | map is wrong. it is showing two woodhaugh streets (www.zoomin.co.nz) , that run parallel to each other. :yuck: |
gibler (49) | ||
| 412340 | 2005-12-14 00:40:00 | Looking at these maps of where youse guys live, I need to ask a question: Can any tell me the base language or peoples from which all these towns are named? They look mighty strange to US eyes and although we have some strange names of our own, they are placed quite far and few apart . Your names seem to be the rule rather than an exception . I find them very interesting . . but not very pronounceable . . . maybe after a few beers! In general terms, the names of towns and cities reflect the predominant ethnicity of the settling people . During the 19th century, settlers arrived in New Zealand predominantly from Europe, specifically England, Scotland, France (to a lesser degree), and the Netherlands . A number of places hold Maori names, due to prevailing numbers of aboriginal populations . A few places have swapped their names from English to Maori and vice versa . More intelligent people here can elaborate (or correct) this explanation . Lizard |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 412341 | 2005-12-14 00:41:00 | I live here: www.jpl.nasa.gov | somebody (208) | ||
| 412342 | 2005-12-14 01:08:00 | They look mighty strange to US eyes and although we have some strange names of our own, they are placed quite far and few apart . Your names seem to be the rule rather than an exception . Maori, as Lizard says . You've got to remember Joe that NZ is geographically tiny, compared to the US . When the European settlers arrived the Maori had been naming the geography -- in detail -- for hundreds of years . Even though the settlers put English place names down for new settlements, many if not most of the existing Maori names for areas stuck . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 412343 | 2005-12-14 02:07:00 | Interesting....in my case it finds my street and house number in Motueka but shows a map without the street. The map relates to when the area was tobacco fields a number of years ago. That's interesting,my lane wasn't there 18 month ago and it shows. |
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