> While in the doctor's office today, reading the American travel magazines, I learnt two new bits of randomly exciting trivia -- about Life in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Apparently:
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> 1. A New Zealander is more likely to use the term "tangi" to refer to what we call a funeral in standard English. Did you know that.

Wrong. A "tangi" is, specifically, a Maori traditional funeral. The average non-Maori New Zealander would say "funeral". I stand to be corrected on this, but I also think that the average Maori would also say "funeral" when speaking English, unless it was in reference to an actual tangi and not just a standard funeral. "Tangi" has crossed over into standard NZ English, but still only refers to the traditional Maori ceremony, which is usually several days long.

> 2. The lowest monetary denomination in NZ (and in Australia) is not the penny or the pence. Whatever it is, it is not the 1¢/1p coin, because neither country has the latter. Or so the magazine claimed. Heh.

It's the five cent coin. We had one and two cent coins up until I was a teenager.