Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 17, 2021 4:04:13 GMT 12
WĒTĀ WORKSHOP ADDS MACRONS TO UNDO MISUSE OF TE REO MĀORI
For years, missing macrons meant Weta Workshop was mistakenly named after excrement, rather than the spiky native insect.
According to Hēmi Kelly, a lecturer in Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Maori Studies at AUT, the correct way to spell weta, as in the insect, is with a macron on the ē and the ā.
The macrons indicate the vowel sounds should be elongated – weh-taa.....
www.stuff.co.nz/business/126988295/wt-workshop-adds-macrons-to-undo-misuse-of-te-reo-mori
For years, missing macrons meant Weta Workshop was mistakenly named after excrement, rather than the spiky native insect.
According to Hēmi Kelly, a lecturer in Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Maori Studies at AUT, the correct way to spell weta, as in the insect, is with a macron on the ē and the ā.
The macrons indicate the vowel sounds should be elongated – weh-taa.....
www.stuff.co.nz/business/126988295/wt-workshop-adds-macrons-to-undo-misuse-of-te-reo-mori