Wednesday, September 03, 2008
New addition to the EF Team - Andrew Peters

by way of Alex

 

Andrew Peters is joining the EF team. Funny to see all of the comments about the growing numbers of kiwis (is it PC for a non-kiwi to use that term?) at Microsoft. :-)

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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:41:09 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #     |  Comments [2]  | 
Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:23:21 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
According to my Kiwi friends, they are fine with others using the term. Their only - and major - pet peeve is that Kiwi refers to residents of New Zealand and does not refer to fruit or birds. So never say, "I love to eat kiwis!" within earshot of a Kiwi. They will be quick to correct you to "I love to eat kiwi FRUIT."
James Kovacs
Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:39:18 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
James was close, but not quite...

- We love to be called Kiwis
- We hate the term Kiwi Bird... it is just a Kiwi (you don't say Crow Bird do you?)
- The fruit is definitely Kiwifruit (just one word there, not two)

And we happily call the English "Poms" and Americans "Yanks". We never mean it as a derogatory word, we just assume you'll like it like we like being called Kiwis. :o)
David (a Kiwi)
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