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Child s name shortened by teachers for being too hard to pronounce
28 Feb, 2021 02:00 AM
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Five-year-old Mahinarangi, teaches peers to pronounce her name correctly because she s proud of it.
Five-year-old Mahinarangi Tautu just wants people to try to say her full name.
When Mahinarangi started daycare, her mother Paris was told her name had been shortened to Rangi because it was too hard to pronounce.
The Palmerston North and Ngāti Raukawa mum was determined this would not happen. My ancestors changed their original name from Perepe-Perana to Phillips because of colonisation, Tautu told the Herald on Sunday. I will not let something similar happen with my daughter.