Why Is Kiwi The Name For A Fruit, Bird, And People? (Ft. Soliloquy) — Transcript

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1. 0:00when I say the word kiwi what's the
2. 0:01first thing that comes to your mind I'm
3. 0:03sure if you asked a 100 people this same
4. 0:05question you wouldn't get a unanimous
5. 0:07answer some would say a fruit some would
6. 0:09say a bird and some would say
7. 0:10nationality how did kiwi become the name
8. 0:13for so many different things and are
9. 0:15they all connected the one thing all
10. 0:16three of these kiwis have in common is
11. 0:18New Zealand though not all three have
12. 0:20their origins in the land on Middle
13. 0:22Earth and sheep the kiwi fruit was
14. 0:23originally native to China and is still
15. 0:25one of their National fruits in its Home
16. 0:27Country the fruit is known as the yanga
17. 0:29and until recently was still collected
18. 0:30in the wild as opposed to being
19. 0:31traditionally farmed China however still
20. 0:34exported the fruit and it became known
21. 0:35through Europe as the Chinese gooseb it
22. 0:38was at the turn of the century however
23. 0:39when the first seeds landed on the
24. 0:40shores of New Zealand they fell in love
25. 0:43with the fruit and started to farm it by
26. 0:441962 however a New Zealand grow started
27. 0:47calling it the kiwi fruit why for Market
28. 0:50reasons new zealanders are known as kiwi
29. 0:52so Nam the fruit after the Charming
30. 0:54people gave the fruit a certain charm in
31. 0:56the market too wait the fruit is named
32. 0:58after the people sir how did the people
33. 1:01get their name well luckily for you guys
34. 1:03an actual kiwi has come to help us with
35. 1:05this one is that my C I think so squ has
36. 1:08popped onto the Chan to help us out with
37. 1:10this kiwi canundrum as a kiwi himself
38. 1:12and all around Smart Cookie I'm sure
39. 1:14he'll have the answers for us well
40. 1:16indeed I do the kiwi bird has been used
41. 1:20as a symbol of New Zealand almost since
42. 1:21the birth of the nation the first New
43. 1:23Zealand pictorial stamps made use of the
44. 1:25Kiwi on the six Penny stamp and the
45. 1:27first New Zealand currency featured the
46. 1:29bird on all all of the notes the use of
47. 1:31the Kiwi to symbolize New Zealand
48. 1:33effectively resulted in the Kiwi
49. 1:34becoming the de facto national animal
50. 1:36for New Zealand before the first world
51. 1:38war although still today this is an
52. 1:41unofficial status but while the Kiwi was
53. 1:43a national symbol and used to represent
54. 1:45the nation it wasn't yet synonymous with
55. 1:47the people the use of the word kiwi to
56. 1:49represent new zealanders begins with the
57. 1:50military the bird's image has been used
58. 1:53on military badges since the South
59. 1:54Canterbury Battalion used it in 1886 and
60. 1:58several regiments used the symbol on
61. 1:59their badges in the first world war by
62. 2:01the end of the first world war New
63. 2:03Zealand soldiers were carrying the
64. 2:04nickname kiwi and this nickname would
65. 2:06again be applied to New Zealand soldiers
66. 2:08in the second world war after the second
67. 2:10world war the word kiwi gradually became
68. 2:12applied to all new zealanders and today
69. 2:14the nickname is worn as a badge of
70. 2:16national pride by us kiwis thanks cqu
71. 2:19you guys should seriously check out his
72. 2:21channel it's like mine if mine was
73. 2:24actually any good however Solo's answer
74. 2:26leaves us with a question if the fruit
75. 2:28was named after the people and the
76. 2:30people after the bird then where did the
77. 2:32bird get its name the bird unlike the
78. 2:34fruit is native to New Zealand there
79. 2:36were two ideas on where the name came
80. 2:38from kiwi in the marry language is
81. 2:40thought to mean of imitative origin and
82. 2:42this name was given to the bird because
83. 2:43it's co as similar to many other birds
84. 2:45and even possums the second theory goes
85. 2:48the bird is named after the Polynesian
86. 2:49Ki their word for the bristle fied curu
87. 2:52another small brown curve beaked bird
88. 2:55whichever story is true the birds became
89. 2:57kiwis and then became an icon for
90. 3:00country so much so the people named
91. 3:02themselves after it and calling their
92. 3:04fruit after it in tow petrick good stuff
93. 3:07oh SLO you're still here didn't my
94. 3:10people show you out yeah well they tried
95. 3:13but I used my karate skills and laser
96. 3:15gun to F them off oh I didn't know you
97. 3:17could do that I'm an animation Patrick I
98. 3:20can do
99. 3:22anything but anyway there's a reason
100. 3:24that I'm back I've been Conjuring up an
101. 3:26idea over on my channel for a way for us
102. 3:28to become instant YouTube stars but it's
103. 3:31kind of devilish I could certainly use
104. 3:33your help you sounds good to me
105. 3:36brilliant I shall meet you there H let's
106. 3:40see what he's getting me into this
107. 3:44[Music]
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