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| | 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. |
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