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  New Zealand English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Zealand English is the English spoken in New Zealand.
New Zealand is perhaps unique among English speaking countries in its spelling of the word fjord, favouring the spelling fiord.
New Zealanders will often reply to a question with a statement spoken with a rising inflection on the last couple of words (known in linguistics as a high rising terminal).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_English   (2722 words)

  
 Oxford (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oxford is a city in England and the eponymous university located there.
Oxford East and Oxford West and Abingdon, the modern constituencies based around the city.
Oxford sheep - a breed of sheep originating in England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford_(disambiguation)   (188 words)

  
 New Zealand travel guide - Wikitravel
New Plymouth — New Plymouth is the port and main city in the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
New Zealand has a temperate climate in the south island and sub-tropical climate in the North Island and the nature of the terrain, the prevailing winds and the length of the country lead to sharp regional contrasts.
New Zealand Independent Coach Tours These unescorted multiday coach tours are designed for travellers who want the value and security of pre-booked hotels and sightseeing activities, but prefer more independent time with the option to add extra days or activities to suit their requirements.
wikitravel.org /en/New_Zealand   (10402 words)

  
 Language in New Zealand
New Zealand English is considered one of the major varieties of English and is different enough from other forms of English to justify it being classed as a separate dialect, as represented by the publication of the Oxford New Zealand English dictionary.
New Zealanders consider their accent to be markedly different from the Australian one and are often mildly offended when mistaken for or confused with Australians.
New Zealand Sign language was given status in 2005 as an official language of the country.
www.magicaljourneys.com /NewZealand/newzealand-interest-culture-language.html   (1206 words)

  
 Oxford University Press - New Zealand Dictionary Centre
The New Zealand Dictionary Centre was established in July 1997 in partnership with Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University Press with the purposes of:
The New Zealand Dictionary Centre is based in Wellington, where there are valuable sources for lexicographical research in the National Library, the Alexander Turnbull Library, and the National Archives.
The New Zealand Dictionary Centre has an extensive reference library and direct access to citations for words which are being processed but which have not yet been published in the Oxford English Dictionary.
www.oup.com.au /content/General.asp?ContentID=1266   (662 words)

  
 BBC - Oxford Features - From Oxford to Oxford
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Morris Oxford, Tim Nicholson and Joanne Bowlt, are driving from Oxford, United Kingdom, to Oxford, New Zealand, in a 1954 Morris Series II.
The pair who are graduates from Brookes and Oxford University have put all their belongings in storage, and let their flats in order to undertake the mamoth trip across the world.
Oxford's Kiwi namesake is a small rural village on the Waimakariri River, 55 km from Christchurch.
www.bbc.co.uk /oxford/features/2004/05/oxford2oxford.shtml   (208 words)

  
 Hotspot: New Zealand @ National Geographic Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This meat-eating living fossil is the first of four New Zealand images to grace your desktop this month.
To learn more about conservation opportunities in New Zealand or to get ideas for conservation programs in your own area, visit the websites of the NZTCV (www.conservationvolunteers.org.nz/) and the Department of Conservation (www.doc.govt.nz/).
New Zealand's most famous bird is struggling to survive.
magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0210/feature4/index.html   (883 words)

  
 News | Victoria University of Wellington
Tony Deverson said that many new words or new meanings for old words have come from the rural sector and others from factories, the sports field or reflect particular aspects of social, cultural or political life in New Zealand.
Of those, more than 2,000 entries are about New Zealand and cover a broad spectrum of Mâori and Pâkehâ men and women as well as a full range of place names, public and private organisations, major historical events and locations, items of Kiwiana and names from Mâori mythology.
Twenty extensive appendices contain significant statistical information about New Zealand and its history, along with lists of important geographical features, centres of population, notable citizens, the English and Mâori versions of the national anthem and the Treaty of Waitangi, and the conventional guides to grammar and punctuation.
www.vuw.ac.nz /home/about_victoria/news_article.asp?ArticleID=1042148105   (881 words)

  
 Railways of New Zealand: Oxford and Eyreton Branches
Railways of New Zealand: Oxford and Eyreton Branches
While the Oxford Branch was built to move timber from the sawmills in the district, the construction of the Eyreton Branch was purely political and the initial terminus at West Eyreton was extended to Bennetts in order to reduce the losses in line working.
The line between Oxford and Sheffield closed in 1930 due to the Depression while the Eyreton line between Horrelville and Bennetts closed in 1931 at the same time as passenger services were withdrawn on both lines.
www.trainweb.org /enzedrail/branch/oxfordeyreton   (328 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
His father was a man of some enterprise, who had come to New Zealand as a young man and had established a general store in Oxford, before purchasing a sheep farm about four miles from town.
Sydney Thompson returned to New Zealand in 1905, and in 1906 was appointed an instructor at the Canterbury College School of Art, where he conducted classes in life drawing and painting until 1910.
He was one of the first New Zealand-born painters to develop a professional career, but unlike Frances Hodgkins and Raymond McIntyre, the advanced artists of his generation, he did not cut his ties with New Zealand or attempt to define himself within the context of modern British art.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=3T32   (1242 words)

  
 ORO: Oxford Reference Online: What's new
This new edition of the Companion has been fully updated and includes new entries on key cases and full treatment of crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
Compiled at the New Zealand Dictionary Centre in Wellington, it reflects research into New Zealand words and their use, including new words, and new uses of older words that have evolved in New Zealand.
Using new and original methods, it presents words according to their use and frequency based on the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, an unrivalled collection of millions of words of modern English.
www.oxfordreference.com /pages/whatsnew_oct2005   (635 words)

  
 New Zealand Bibliography
New Zealand flappers: an analysis of T voicing in a sample of New Zealand English.
New Zealand English: a guide to the correct pronunciation of English, with special reference to New Zealand conditions and problems.
New Zealand English across the generations: an analysis of selected vowel and consonant variables.
www.ualberta.ca /~johnnewm/NZEnglish/biblio.html   (4629 words)

  
 rediff.com: Around the world in a Morris Oxford!
Joanne Bowlt (35) and Tim Nicholson (36), who have chucked off their lucrative jobs to pursue their dream of travelling across the world, remarked that it was simply their love for adventure that drew them to this mission of crisscrossing the world in a car to raise funds for the Red Cross.
Well the Oxford tag is what made us zero down on an Oxford Morris, since we were planning to commence our tour from Oxford in the UK to Oxford in New Zealand," Tim said.
Morris Oxford earlier known as Landmaster is a forerunner of the Ambassador, informed Joanne.
inhome.rediff.com /money/2004/aug/21wk1.htm   (285 words)

  
 The Best Pelagic Birding in the World - New Zealand
New Zealand is one of the world's great hotspots for seabirding, and can legitimately be called the albatross capital of the world, with more breeding taxa of albatrosses than any other country.
Stewart Island is the smallest of the three main New Zealand islands, and is a relatively accessible place to see both breeding seabirds and visitors from Subantarctic and even Antarctic waters.
Lying southwest of New Zealand (54º 30'S, 158º 57'E), this remote island is actually an Australian territory (State of Tasmania).
www.oceanwanderers.com /NewZeal.html   (4204 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Oxfordshire | Epic trip for classic British car
They drove from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the rather more rural Kiwi town of the same name - to raise money for the international charity, with Florence the star of the show on their 'oxford2oxford' road trip, which also marked the 50th anniversary of the famous Morris Oxford Series II.
They are finishing their journey with a triumphant trip down Oxford Street on Friday, 22 July, and then on to the home straight to Oxford City centre to be greeted by the mayor at Radcliffe Square on Saturday, 23 July.
She was greeted by 6,000 enthusiastic New Zealanders and 600 other classic cars in Oxford, NZ, who welcomed the couple after their epic journey with a song inspired by their travels, and woolly hats made by a local sheep-shearer.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4694379.stm   (871 words)

  
 International Englishes
"New Zealand English." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
New Zealand English: An Introduction to New Zealand Speech and Usage.
New Zealand English Grammar, Fact or Fiction?: A Corpus-Based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation.
www.wright.edu /~martin.kich/IntEng/Antipodes.htm   (626 words)

  
 2003 Media Release, University of Otago, New Zealand
Last month's Montana New Zealand Books Awards were a double triumph for the company's slim roster of four permanent staff members who work out of a converted villa in 56 Union St West, opposite the Physical Education School.
A staff member of the Oxford University Press for 12 years, in Oxford and New Zealand, before she ran her own company for another 12 years, Harrex has made steady progress in her time at Otago.
"Oxford was the biggest publisher in the world, when I started working there in 1970," she says.
www.otago.ac.nz /news/news/2003/12-08-03_press_release.html   (751 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | Oxford-to-Oxford couple to marry
Former Oxford students Joanne Bowlt, 36, and Tim Nicholson, 37, raised £10,000 for the British Red Cross during their trip.
The couple set off in their 50-year-old Morris Oxford in May 2004 and arrived back to the English Oxford a week ago.
Ms Bowlt, 36, a public relations consultant said: "Having survived the Oxford, England, to Oxford, New Zealand, journey, we have decided to embark on another journey.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4736507.stm   (251 words)

  
 YWAM Oxford, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Students enjoy the amazing natural beauty of South Island New Zealand; hiking, climbing, and camping during the lecture phase of the school.
Roger and Julie Philpott are the pioneers of this school in Oxford which they started in 2000 and continue to lead.
All new DTS staff are required to be part of this hands on course.
www.ywamoxford.org /location/base.php   (1098 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Penguin History of New Zealand: Books: Michael King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Upon visiting New Zealand for the first time two years ago, an enthusiastic Kiwi colleague recommended Michael King's recently published Penguin History of New Zealand as 'a true page-turner'.
It is obvious why this book is heralded by all the trendy PC thinkers in NZ today as a work of inspired genius: the white man is to blame for all the ills suffered by the brown man in NZ today and deserves to feel guilty about it.
Michael King, a former professor of New Zealand history at Georgetown University, has written an incredibly detailed and thought-provoking survey of New Zealand history.
www.amazon.com /Penguin-History-New-Zealand/dp/0143018671   (1230 words)

  
 Oxford, New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oxford is a small town (population 1,581 [1]) serving the farming community of north Canterbury, New Zealand.
 This Canterbury, New Zealand-related geography article is a stub.
This page was last modified 00:29, 24 August 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford,_New_Zealand   (91 words)

  
 Religious Freedom Page: New Zealand
Hunt, B. Zion in New Zealand: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand, 1854-1977.
Sampson, B. Women of Spirit: Life-stories of New Zealand Salavation Army Women from the Last 100 years.
Worsfold, J. A History of the Charismatic Movement in New Zealand: Including a Pentecostal Perspective and a Breviate of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Great Britain.
religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /nationprofiles/New_Zealand/bib.html   (155 words)

  
 Hours Remaining... Oxford, New Zealand
I am sad to leave my family here in Oxford, everyone in my school and on base staff is so amazing and I love them all dearly, but I know that I will see them again.
Whether it is in Israel or back here in New Zealand.
I love you all and I hope that you have enjoyed sharing me lecture phase with me. Now it is on to a whole new adventure.
www.traveljournals.net /stories/12429.html   (383 words)

  
 NEW ZEALAND
In 1963, she moved from New Zealand to London where she worked as a librarian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
She belongs to the New Zealand Literary Fund and the New Zealand Indecent Publications Tribunal.
Her novels have been short listed for the New Zealand Awards, the Banjo Patterson Awards, the Christina Stead National Book Award and the bicentennial National Book Awards.
www.endicott.edu /newprod/iwli/newzealand.html   (361 words)

  
 Personal Loan New Zealand, Money Investment New Zealand : Oxford Finance Corporation Limited
Oxford Finance Corporation Limited is a vibrant Levin based finance company that commenced trading in 1987 and has grown steadily since that time.
Oxford Finance Corporation also offer competitive investment rates for your money along with the services of an experienced personal Investment Manager.
Oxford is in the top 30 New Zealand Finance Companies with assets of around $50 million.
www.oxfordfc.co.nz   (110 words)

  
 Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University : IFSA-Butler Programs : New Zealand
New Zealand has plenty of urban excitement, too.
From the capital city of Wellington to sophisticated Auckland to college-town Palmerston North, New Zealand’s cities feature sports, entertainment, cultural attractions, and lots to see and do.
The flexibility of the New Zealand university system gives you a great selection of courses and subjects, as well as the opportunity to truly immerse yourself into the Kiwi culture.
www.ifsa-butler.org /programs/new_zealand   (207 words)

  
 campervan hire Oxford Christchurch New Zealand from Rentals Campervans.co.nz
New Zealand rental cars Auckland head quarters conveniently located nearby highways.Camper van hire business established 1997, family owner operated.
Outdoor folding table, chairs are provided to enjoy outside sunshine and dining.New Zealand motor homes are designed with comfort mind, with interior lined with carpet on floor and full curtains around insuring privacy.Motorhomes New Zealand gives opportunity to stay wherever suits.Springtime is warm, green and mildly humid.
Advice is freely available from consulting interest areas to historical knowledge regarding New Zealand.Follow state highway one towards Whangarei, largest city north of Auckland.Summertime New Zealand campervan rentals recommend advanced reservations as busy period commences.
www.campervans.co.nz /campervan-hire/campervan-hire-oxford.html   (336 words)

  
 Reflection, Oxford, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
I was given the opportunity to let God be more to me than He currently was able to be for me where I was at.
I was paid for to come to New Zealand.
But now we are in our last days here in New Zealand.
www.traveljournals.net /stories/12299.html   (472 words)

  
 Focus 10 | New Zealand Photographic Workshops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
New Zealand's South Island has become one of the world's famed the adventure playgrounds.
It is also one of the most photogenic places in New Zealand.
The remarkables rising up from Lake Wakatipu, the pristine waters and mountain scenery giving us a magnificent backdrop to bungy jumpers leaping off the Skippers Canyon Bridge and panning for gold in the former gold mining town of Arrowfield.
www.focus10.com.au /workshops/workint_new_zealand.htm   (305 words)

  
 Oxford A&P Show | Oxford Agricultural and Pastoral Association | Oxford | New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The main objectives of the Oxford A&P Association is to bring Town and Country together one day a year to enjoy country hospitality and to promote agricultural and pastoral excellence in all areas.
The next Oxford AandP Show will be held on Saturday March 31, 2007.
Mrs Christine Roberts, Secretary, Oxford AandP Assn, 9 Matai Place, Oxford 7430, New Zealand.
www.oxfordapshow.co.nz   (113 words)

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