Plebeian Resistance

Taniitini, where would that be, what does it sound like?

Dunedin maybe?

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Richard Seager
Sep 24, 2022
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I give you the actual Maori for Dunedin. None of this Otepoti shit.

And although the evidence that it took hold is somewhat weak it is still way stronger than the case for Otepoti, which is clearly a joke name from two English loan words, oaty and boaty.

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Where’s this?

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