G'day Stewie,

This obviously relates to our cousins on the eastern side of the Tasman Sea, but I'll check this, tonight, against some NZ glossaries. (However, I do reckon your (worry ?) is probably whare, the Maori word for 'hut' or 'house' ... roughly "wory" ... with the vowel sound as in 'hot' - although the intitial sound of the intitial consonant is a bit tricky for us pakehas!)

Incidentally, I know that the Oxford Australian Words Project ... from the early '60s ... was compiling word lists from Australian trades - so I suspect they were doing something similar in New Zealand around the same time, since there is an NZ equivalent to The Australian National Dictionary (i>The New Zealand National Dictionary ... ?). There may be someone at OWLS (Oxford Word and Language Service ) - they are at the Australian National University, in our case - who can access the specialised lists.

Regards,

Bob Bolton