Shameless plug for my homeland. The book titled Newzild [1] is the 1966 light-hearted "dictionary" New Zild and how to speak it, by author Arch Acker. The titl

Shameless plug for my homeland. The book titled Newzild [1] is the 1966 light-hearted "dictionary" New Zild and how to speak it, by author Arch Acker. The title mimics the broad New Zealand accent, which shortens the pronunciation of "New Zealand". It opens with 'Air gun?' (or 'Acid gun?', I honestly no longer remember) – a humorous pronunciation of the common colloquial greeting 'how are you going?' [1] https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/40118/new-zild-and-how-to-speak-it https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/40118/new-zild-and-how-to-...