En op 10 april 2002 sprak Keith Calvert Ivey: > I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a New Zealander on > Usenet years ago. He expressed surprise that some people used > the word "kiwi" to refer to kiwi fruit and wondered how we then > referred to the bird. I told him that, amazingly enough, most > US residents managed to go for years at a stretch without > having any occasion to refer to the bird at all.
We have little need to refer to that bird either. However, there are vast hordes of New Zealanders living here (especially around Bondi), so we use the word "kiwi" to mean "New Zealander". To keep this on topic, I wonder if there were any kiwis playing in TPR02. /-\ndrew
