Dr Brooke Ross. Photo: Xin Wang
What do fish and chips, pen and six all have in common?
Answer? They're some of the words we New Zealanders get mocked the most for.
Some find our accent a delight, others a disaster but how did we come to sound like we do?
A new project at Auckland University has been looking at the evolution of the Kiwi accent and it has uncovered a lot.
Post-doctoral fellow Dr Brooke Ross is co-lead on the project and joins Jesse.
