Waikikamukau

Waikikamukau, Why-key-cah-moo-koh (pronounced as if saying "Why kick a moo-cow"), is an imaginary small rural town or locality in New Zealand. New Zealanders use the name as a placeholder name for "any town" or to denote a particularly remote rural town. It has a similar connotation as the term wop-wops, or for other English speakers Timbuktu, or BFEMcCloy, Nicola (2006). Whykickamoocow: curious New Zealand Place Names. ISBN 1-86941-807-7. .

Waikikamukau is an example of how a bogus Māori word can be created out of an English phrase, and some idea of how Māori is commonly pronounced. Māori comedian Billy T. James created several others placenames in a similar way.

It was also the name of a successful racehorse[1] in the 1990s.

See also

• Māori language
• Dolno Nanagornishte

References

External links

• English and Māori Word Translator
• New Zealand Expressions
• There\'s a photograph - a poem by Mike Crowl

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