1. WHAKAPAPA
Whakapapa is a village and ski field on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu. As ‘Wh’ is pronounced ‘f’ in Maori, when this word is pronounced to an English-speaker,
the ski field seems to be implying se.xual acts with one’s parent. Rest assured, in the Maori language, te reo Maori, Whakapapa means genealogy.
