User:Nixinova/sandbox/Archive 2021

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 * Opinion polling for the next New Zealand general election
 * Next New Zealand general election
 * Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
 * New Zealand English phonology

EN-NZ
The Pacific and Australasia p.295
 * If the vowel appears it is generally following /j/.
 * In parts of Australia the quality of the offglide for the vowel is weak and is often realized as length; in NZE a long monophthongal variant also appears before liquids /l/ and /r/.

p.296
 * The unstressed vowel in is generally realised as [i].
 * Widely used by Australians and New Zealanders is a flap or tap [ɾ] of /t/ in intervocalic final positions (as in get it and sort of) and medial positions (as in better and beauty). This variant also occurs commonly preceding syllabic laterals and nasals (as in bottle and button). There is also a glottalized version of /t/ that can be heard more usually in medial contexts (such as cutlass) and in end positions (such as shut), less so intervocalically (as in get out).
 * These varieties share with many other English dialects the feature of pala-talization of /t, d, s, z/ preceding the vowel [u]. There is, however, con-siderable variation between the pronunciations with yod and with palatals, as in tune [tjun] versus [tʃun]. The palatalized variants are more likely to occur when the syllable is unstressed (as in fortune and educate).
 * Both AusE and NZE are also showing evi-dence of a complex assimilation taking place in the consonant clusters /tr/ and /str/ – the affiicated realizations [tʃɹ] and [ʃtɹ] are becoming increasingly fre-quent in these varieties. The word tree, for example, is pronounced as [tʃɹi]. In younger speakers there are also signs of this affricated pronunciation extending to the /stj/ cluster of words such as student.
 * Devoicing of voiced fricatives is a general feature of NZE, and is particularly evident in Maori English.
 * In NZE this is not a major tendency, although /f/ does occasionally substitute for /θ/. This feature is more common in casual conversation and is still very stigmatized in both dialects.
 * The substitution of [ŋ] for [n] in words ending with -ing and [ŋk] for final [ŋ] [...] The latter feature, however, is still stigmatized and is typically confined to the broad varieties.

Next National Party leadership contest
Due to sustained low polling throughout 2021 for National, there was frequent media speculation as to a leadership contention.

A November 2021 Newshub–Reid Research poll of all voters as to their preferred National Party leader found that 40.7% favoured Bridges while 23.2% favoured Collins, with the rest unsure. Of National voters, Bridges was on 41.8% and Collins on 39.9%.

Census note
The 2018 census had an unusually low (83%) response rate. Statistics New Zealand subsequently calculated the 2018 census statistics based on the combination of 2018 census responses (82.9%), 2013 census responses (8.2%) and imputation (8.8%). The reported results are deemed to be high quality, but are not completely reliable. 23:17, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

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00:19, 10 April 2021 (UTC)