Yip - its official Wanganui is now officially Whanganui - funny thing is if you hear the Whanganui people pronounce it - it sounds like hanganui with the W silent. The decision certainly follows previous precidents set by the Geographical Board.
Laws is very crappy about it - Interestingly I think that they could have some serious whun taking the piss out of the issue. It could be a good marketing hook.
Come have whun in Whanganui.
Whar - out - Maori 1- Pakeha 0. Don't get that very often.
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All a storm in whucking teapot perhaps ?
bugger. I was gong to say something like that...whancy that. Actually, to be whair, Whanganui is a whucking whantastic name whor sure.
whair dues whellas, whantasy is fere you whuck a duck so you wheel whantastic.
Bye the way, how should we be pronouncing who, what where, why and when now - foo, fot, fere fye and fen?
I am delighted that Ken Mair isn pushing the message about proper spelling.
I expect Maori to win the spelling bees from now on.
For what its worth people can see who is on the NZ Geographical Names board at "Tumeke"
Golly gosh look at the racial bias,
copy and paste to Google
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Fot miserable sod pressed the one star button? Lambcut thinks this is a good good and whunny post.
The second good was a typo.
I thought it was indiginous for very good!
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