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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

Vaitea is a NZ born Italian living in London - she talks to Emma Smith about being a trilingual rapper. Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 10 May 2014 Audio

British author and journalist, and great granddaughter of Ernest Gowers, whose 1948 English usage guide Plain Words she has just updated. Audio

Measuring non-native English speakers' accents show changes depending on the situation and what they are talking about Audio

Split infinitives, long sentences and the word that are all off-limits to those who draft letters and speeches for the Attorney-General and Government Minister, Chris Finlayson. Audio

Defining and defending equality for women with feminist blogger Deborah Russell. This time Deborah focuses on the words we use to describe women. Audio

Author of the Schott's Miscellany series, and the new book Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition. Audio

From alphabets to zipcodes, the surprising story of our 26 letters. Language expert, Michael Rosen asks how we fixed upon our 26 letters, and what they mean. Audio

This longer web-only story explores University of Otago research looking at whether names fit particular shapes and faces Audio

A New Yorker piece is predicting that words used incredibly often, like "iconic", will soon disappear through contempt. Audio

Victoria University Professor Laurie Bauer on some of the peculiarities of the English language. His specialist area is morphology, the way words are brought together to create new ones. Professor… Audio

Ten English words you didn't know existed. Or maybe you did? Audio

The phenomenon of word aversion - ordinary sorts of words that some people just detest. Audio

Wellington speech and language therapist Christian Wright discusses myths and misunderstandings held by parents regarding children's speech and language development. Audio

Katy Gosset is learning to talk with her hands - tackling this country's third official language. Here in New Zealand, sign language is spoken by about 24,000 people including deaf, hearing impaired… Audio