The theme of Maori Language Week 2008 is ‘Te Reo I te Kainga’. The challenge for all of us is to take the knowledge contained in the dictionary and use it among our whanau.

Maori woman Julia Rahui, from Auckland, was reading The Oxford New Zealand Dictionary when she landed on the definition of the word 'bro' and the apparent context in which it's used in Maori.

Māori words like chur and e hoa have been included in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. A batch of 47 New Zealand English words and phrases including expressions such as after ...