AFTERNOONS/RNZ
Emile Donovan discovers even those who can t speak te reo Māori know more than they think, according to new research from the University of Canterbury.
OPINION: When the writer Bill Bryson was a young newspaper sub-editor, he wrote his first book about English. “When I realised that there were vast expanses of English usage – linguistic Serengetis – that I was not clear about at all, I wrote to a kindly editor at Penguin Books and impetuously suggested that there was a need for a simple guide to the more confusing aspects of the language and that I was prepared to undertake it. To my astonishment and gratification, he sent me a contract and, by way of advance, a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth. The book that resulted [