tui

[prettygoodword]

Back to one last week of Words My True Love Gave Me:


tui - n., a New Zealand honeyeater bird (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), black with a patch of white on either side of its throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.


Pronounced TOO-ee; plural is identical. Formerly also called the parson bird, but now called exclusively by its Maori name.

(Am I the only person bemused that LJ's spellcheck doesn't recognize "Zealand"?)

---L.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

LJ's spellcheck has lost all power to surprise me. It's just average - nothing else to say about it.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Yah.

---L.