Type in “New Zealand accent” into Google and one of the auto-suggestions from the search engine giant is “do people speak English in New Zealand?”, indicating there is at least some doubt about this online.
him. However the board on his wall then tells him it is time to start taking calls from New Zealand, after which things start going wrong. In call after call, Santa misinterprets what the Kiwi on the other end of the phone is telling him, and these nonsensical present suggestions are then relayed down to the elf factory.
The answer is naturally yes, but the New Zealand accent is a fairly unique one, especially when pronouncing certain vowel sounds. This is the basis of Air New Zealand’s Christmas based campaign, “A very merry mistake.” For example, a book of “magic tricks” is heard as “magic trucks”, a “new bed” In the campaign video, Santa is first of becomes “a new beard”, while the factory all seen taking a call from China where he is told to make a “biscuit ball” instead of speaks fluent Mandarin, after which he is a “basketball.” congratulated by the elf sitting opposite
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