Pronunciation Slippery
“The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, Aug. 26. The £2.stn maximum security prison is to be built at Panemoremo—and not at “Parrymoreemo” or “Pareemoreetno” as many Europeans claim. Professor B. G. Biggs, associate professor of Maori at Auckland University, said that an easy method of learning the correct pronunciation of the name was first to break it up into three parts—pa, remo and remo. The first part, he said, had a long soft “a” as in the complete word “pa.” In the second part, “remo,” the “e” was the same as in “hem,” while the nearest sound in the English language to the “o” was as in the word “port.” As the third part was a repetition of the second, the first “e” was emphasised. The meaning of Parernoremo, Professor Biggs said, was “to be slippery.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30841, 28 August 1965, Page 23
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137Pronunciation Slippery Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30841, 28 August 1965, Page 23
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