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A New Zealander who had moved to England decided to prepare a dessert of fruit which in her New Zealand childhood had been called chinese gooseberries. As a result of successful linguistic engineering, followed by a good promotional campaign, she knew they were now known in New Zealand and overseas as kiwifruit. She was somewhat dismayed, however, on opening her English recipe book to read the first instruction 'Slice up 6 Kiwis'. In New Zealand Kiwi refers to a New Zealander! (Holmes, 114)
Holmes, J.. An Introduction to Sociolinguistic. London: Longman: 2001. |
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