People failing to pronounce Maori place names correctly "boggles the mind'' of an Auckland woman, and presumably the thousands of people who viewed her online video about the issue. Botha listed commonly mispronounced place names such as Tauranga, Rotorua, Matamata and Taupo. A te reo speaker would not take an English place name and try to pronounce it with Maori vowels, she said. "So why are Pakeha allowed to get away with making the Maori vowels into English vowels? "You should know how to pronounce the place names in this country.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 12, 2017 19:45 UTC