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Lately for Monday 10 May 2021

  • Word: Shadow Pronouns and Sweet As

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    10:45 PM.Word is the name of our new feature on Mondays - exploring everything about the written and spoken word, especially in New Zealand English. We find out how the language is evolving, how it's changing… Read more Audio

  • Calling London - Rob Hugh-Jones

    10:30 PM.Rob Hugh-Jones from the BBC joins Karyn to talk about an attack on a school in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, over the weekend, the head of the UN visits Russia and how people are returning to their… Read more Audio

  • Local heroes stop a multiple stabbing in Dunedin

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    10:20 PM.Three people injured in a multiple stabbing in a central Dunedin supermarket this afternoon are scheduled to undergo surgery in Dunedin Hospital tonight. Another person has serious injuries and the… Read more Audio

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Photo: RNZ

10:20 Local heroes stop a multiple stabbing in Dunedin

Three people injured in a multiple stabbing at a Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin this afternoon are scheduled to undergo surgery in Dunedin Hospital tonight. Another person has serious injuries, and the suspect is also receiving hospital treatment under guard. Police have lauded those who detained the attacker before police arrived. Karyn speaks with Dunedin's mayor Aaron Hawkins. 

Countdown Cumberland Street, in Dunedin.

Photo: RNZ / Tim Brown

10:30 Calling London - Rob Hugh-Jones

Rob Hugh-Jones from the BBC joins Karyn to talk about an attack on a school in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, over the weekend, the head of the UN visits Russia and how people are returning to their pre-Covid-19 lives.

A view from the site after at least 30 people, mostly schoolgirls, have been killed in three back-to-back blasts targeting a school in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on 8 May 2021.

Photo: AFP / 2021 Anadolu Agency

10:45  Word: Shadow pronouns and "Sweet as"

Word is the name of our new feature on Mondays  - exploring everything about the written and spoken word, especially in New Zealand English.  We find out how the language is evolving, how it's changing and what new things we are saying. Are kids always the first to adopt new words and phrases into their lexicons and why are the rest of us so keen to resist new ideas?  Tonight - some of the things we say we don't even realise we're saying - with linguistics lecturer Dr Andreea Calude from Waikato University. What's a shadow pronoun and how has the term 'Sweet As' changed since it first arrived in the national lexicon. Andreea is working on a book about making English grammar cool called Mysteries of English Grammar - by Rutledge.  It'll be out later this year.  She contributes to a regular language column published by Stuff.

Dr Andreea Calude

Dr Andreea Calude Photo: Waikato University