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Old 08-23-2010, 09:15 AM   #9
ZenGum
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Originally Posted by Pico and ME View Post
When I was a teen working at my hometown bakery, one of my cow orkers was a New Zealander who said 'ducky' a lot. Is that particular to the county or just an all around British term?
The main way to tell the New Zealand accent is by the short i sound, like in six, bit, etc. which comes out sounding like a short u like in sucks, but and so on.

If it sounded like ducky he was calling you dicky.
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