A New Zealand accent.
Miss M has been at school full-time for about 2 months now and in the last few days, Mike and I have noticed her saying certain words with a kiwi twang. "No" is the most noticeable and is pronounced "nu-oh". An inflection at the end of a sentence, as if a question mark has been placed there instead of a period (or a"full-stop" as they call them here), is typical of the kiwi speech cadence and we notice her doing that as well.
Soon we will hear her saying "yes" as "yiss" and "ten " as "tin". Then we will really be convinced she is turning into a kiwi. But for now, here is a glimpse of what is to come with her budding kiwi accent:
How to Speak New Zulander
(for bist effict, rid these out aloud)
Peck - to fill a suitcase
pissed aside - chemical which kills insects
pug - large pink animal with a curly tail
min- male of the species
mess kara - eye makeup
mcKennock - person who fixes cars
Mere - Mayor
leather - foam produced from soap
lift - departed
kittle crusps - potato chips
guess - vapour
fush - marine creature
fear hear - blonde
ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
duffy cult - not easy
amejen - visualise
chuck - very young poultry
bug hut - popular recording
bun button - been bitten by insect
sucks peck - half a dozen beers
Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline
one doze - well known computer program
brudge - structure spanning a stream
sex - one less then seven or "sivven"
tin - one more then nine
cuds - children
cuttin - baby cat
sivven sucks sivven - large Boeing aircraft
sivven four sivven - larger Boeing aircraft
earplane - large flying marchine
beggage chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport
And a wee video:
