Waikikamukau
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Waikikamukau, (pronounced as if saying "Why kick a moo-cow?"), is an imaginary small rural town or locality in New Zealand. New Zealanders use the word for "any town" or to denote a particularly remote rural town.
Waikikamukau is an example of how a pretend Maori word can be created out of an English phrase. Maori comedian Billy T. James created others. It gives some insight into how Maori is written and recorded phonetically.
See also
External links
- English and Maori Word Translator (http://kel.otago.ac.nz/translator/index.html)
- New Zealand Expressions (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8715/nzexpres.html)
- There's a photograph - a poem by Mike Crowl (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4657/poetry/own/photograph.html)