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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownbabe View Post
    What's a paua?
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    Quote Originally Posted by McJim View Post
    Actually you kiwis pronounce paua the same way you pronounce power.
    No we don't. We don't pronounce the W in power but we pronounce one in paua.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownbabe View Post
    thanks for the pronunciation lesson....I read it like....paaaa...ooooooo.....aaaaaaah...without an accent of any kind. Just the way it sounds
    Actually, if you pronounce it like that, and just shorten the 'ooooooo' a mite (to say just a couple of o's), then your pronunciation is better'n all these would-be Maori.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    You're all wrong. Paua is pronounced

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    Quote Originally Posted by Finn View Post
    You're all wrong. Paua is pronounced
    No, no, that's how you pronounce Kina...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear View Post
    No, no, that's how you pronounce Kina...
    No, no, that's how you pronounce abalone...
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    Quote Originally Posted by McJim View Post
    Actually you kiwis pronounce paua the same way you pronounce power.

    Bear and beer sound the same too. Nothing wrong with that just an observation.
    Not from where I come from

    Pa wa.


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