Fiji English has been tentatively studied by linguists and has been suggested as a separate dialect from Standard English (as has developed in Australia and New Zealand), although this distinction is not made locally or in the constitution.
This followed an incident in 1985 when an Oakland-bound American passenger accidentally ended up on a flight to Auckland after misunderstanding several Air New Zealand flight attendants at Los Angeles International Airport.
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In British, Australian and New Zealand English, along with Dutch and Austrian German, a utility knife frequently used in the construction industry is known as a Stanley knife.
Radio New Zealand National a publicly funded non-commercial New Zealand English language radio network operated by Radio New Zealand
Lesley Vainikolo (born 1979), New Zealand/English rugby union player