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When did kiwis start calling utes trucks?
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I'm a kiwi and grew up in the Naki. I moved to canada 10 years ago where they have huge "utes". When i first arrived in canada and heard people calling them trucks it made me laugh. "That ain't a truck, that's a giant ute." I recently visited home and everyone us calling hilux and Rangers trucks now. When did this change??
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Nah people will expect you to use American terms, especially at first. The exception though is where it's genuinely ambiguous and one side might get confused or amused - e.g. jersey, truck, fanny.
What you could do is find somewhere to listen to the pronunciations of Mฤori place names, particularly for the major districts and larger towns. If you're fresh off the plane and can pronounce "Whangarei" reasonably decently (note the "wh" is usually pronounced as an English "f") then I think that would give a positive impression.