New Zealandese
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Zealand + -ese.
Proper noun
[edit]New Zealandese
- (informal) The variety of English spoken in New Zealand.
- 1990, Allan Bell, Janet Holmes, New Zealand Ways of Speaking English, page 34:
- The language we speak is New Zealandese, with its own idiom and pronunciation, and is just as distinctive as the language spoken by Americans, South Africans, Australians and Canadians.
- 2005, Wolfgang Klopfer, Formula 5000 in New Zealand & Australia: Race by Race, page 227:
- He also won three bottles of champagne, or in New Zealandese, champers.