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Monday 11 February 2008

F WORDS






The beautiful Whangarei Falls is one of the places we visited while on hols recently. The water falls over steep cliffs of a height of 26.3 metres. We followed a track down one side and back up the other, which took about 15 mins.



Whagarei is a Maori word; any word starting with the letters wh in Maori is pronounced as f. One of my favourite Maori words is Whakapapa....sound it out with me people... fok - a - papa. How rude. LMAO!

Followed closely by...Longest place name: Taumata-whakatangihanga-kōauau-a-Tamatea-pōkai-whenua-ki-tāna-tahu (Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as landeater, played his flute to his loved one).


Please let me know if I have spelt any words incorrectly, Marja.

24 comments:

  1. Your's is a land that must be visited (and a language which, although very descriptive must also require a tireless tongue lol)

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  2. Yeah, some of the words are very hard to get the tongue around.

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  3. I love waterfalls!
    Very beautiful!
    Oh and don't count on ME to tell you about miss-spelled words, Bwahahahaha!
    You are a character, but in a really good way!!!

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  4. I'm a character but in a good way...phew, glad you cleared that up.

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  5. Then it must be a wheather duster that you have!!
    Must confess, after seeing your article header, I did wonder what was coming! lol

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  6. A blonde walked into a bar..........
    OUCHH!!!

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  7. Hey KB,

    These are great pics. The name of the falls is too funny.

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  8. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a town in Wales and is the worlds longest word without hyphens!It translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".

    Loved your post and those pics are great.

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  9. oh another great spot in paradise Must go there one day the photo's are gorgeous.
    My kids love saying whakapapa
    Didn't know that long name Have to practise that one will take a while

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  10. Oh such a beautiful posting and pictures. And romantic!

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  11. Hey Missy, love the new blog...I knew you'd be back!

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  12. LW - every time you say soul sista I burst into song...hey sister, soul sister....damn I don't know the rest of the words!

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  13. I love my weather duster, dickiebo

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  14. I'm always falling over, LW

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  15. Steve - I've spent many an evening at the good, ole Puhoi pub. Great place, great word...poohoy

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  16. Glad you likey, Jadey girl.

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  17. That's quite a mouthfull, Keith.

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  18. I came across the saying recently and thought it was hilarious, Marja.

    Glad you likey, Erik.

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  19. ` I thought German had long words.

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  20. ` This one's my favorite:

    Steurverweigerungsverfassungsmaessigberechtigt

    ` I have no idea what it means, though. No one uses it anymore. I wonder why?

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