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American Journalist and author, speaking about his recent article for WIRED: 'The Fasinatng... Frustrating... Fascinating History of Autocorrect'. Audio

The Māori word of the week is: poitarawhiti. Te Tima Poitarawhiti o Aotearoa. The NZ Netball team. Audio

Lynda hears from Canadian Architect, Graphic Novelist and Activist David H.T. Wong and Australian Academic Daphne Lowe Kelly about retelling lost histories. "This graphic novel is dedicated to those… Audio

The Māori word of the week is: heihei. Kei te kai heihei tātou? Are we having chicken? Audio

While there is a national campaign to promote Māori language week - with 50 words over 50 weeks - some te reo advocates say tribal dialects could be lost because of a push to learn a standardised… Audio

Life in any of this country's hospital Intensive Care units must be tense and busy enough, without having to deal with patients who don't speak English. One emergency care doctor has come up with a… Audio

Today marks the beginning of a 50 week campaign to teach 50 Maori words to all New Zealanders as part of Maori Language Week. Audio

The Māori word of the week is: āpōpō. "Ka hoki mai au āpōpō. I will return tomorrow". Audio

Peter Sokolowski is the Editor at Large at Merriam-Webster. He's defined and edited entries for many of the company's dictionaries, he also serves as pronouncer for spelling bees around the world… Audio

There are fears that the Motu language, one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea, could be lost soon. Audio

This week on One In Five: student life in Dunedin. Katy Gosset pays an early visit to a Caversham flat to catch its five busy inhabitants before they head off to their South Dunedin campus. Like most… Audio

An audio illusion - once you know what you're hearing you'll hear it, and games with words - find out which breed of English you speak. Audio

New Zealand jewellers and curators of Wunderrūma, an exhibition at the Dowse featuring pieces by contemporary New Zealand artists alongside Māori taonga and Pacific and historical European pieces. Audio

Thirty commonly mispronounced food words (and how to say them correctly). Audio

Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow reading original texts in the Exact Sciences in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Cuneiform. Audio

Kate Camp discusses the 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Audio

Author, playwright and broadcaster who is a regular panelist on the quiz programme QI, and is a guest of the Auckland Writers Festival. Audio

Judge Ajit Swaran Singh: He was the first Fiji-born Indian Judge to be appointed to the District Court bench in New Zealand, serving in Manukau, our country's third largest city holding the most… Audio

A new collection of essays asks if te reo and the marae are in crisis, while investigating how the internet can make them more relevant for our tamariki. Audio

What's your favourite sign? That's both the question and video campaign from Deaf Aotearoa on the eve of New Zealand Sign Language Week (12 – 18 May 2014)

Last year's Census showed the numbers of… Audio