[Magdalen] Kiwi Talk.

[Scott Knitter]

I liked this short documentary about a Carmelite community in NZ. "For
ivvah and ivvah, Aminn!" :)

We had a parishioner in Michigan who grew up in NZ and was hard to
understand at first. Some laughs happened as we misheard what she said
sometimes.

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> I find her cookery very nice, but I am also interested in her accent.
> I don't know whether she is typical for all or a part of New Zealand.   She
> is non-rhotic, of course, but aside from some interesting  inflections,
> most difference from North American accents is the very different
> pronunciation of vowels, especially "e"s.  Most of those come out  with
> a long "e" sound such that extra becomes eeextra, etc.




-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA