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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21179, 1 June 1934, Page 3

New Zeaianders think of the United States as the home of slang, but Americans are just as amused by the characteristic slang of New Zealand. One of the things that interest Mrs Nancy Baker Tompkins, an American business woman who is on holiday in the South Island, is the difference between the colloquial language of the Dominion and her native country. She said yesterday that New Zealanders seemed unaware of the amount of slang they used, and much of it seemed to her so expressive that she was keeping a note of it. Not having her notebook beside her she could not give full examples, but she mentioned the expression "go gay" used where Americans would say "make whoopee," and "go-ahead" instead of the American "go-getter." When a New Zealander said that someone "did him well" lie meant that he had been treated well, but if an American used the same expression he would mean that he had been "rooked." Have you anything to sell—Do you wish to buy? If so, a small advertisement in the classified section of "The Press" will be all you need. 12 words Is, three insertions 2s 6d. —6

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