@kaa Ha! I had the same thought about those boots. In India we used to wear those kinda boots in the rain (called the, gum boots) back in the day.
@odd Nice. Of course, the British are all fancy and call it Wellingtons. Thankfully, we didn't borrow that from them like we did other things.
@pratik @JohnPhilpin In new Zealand we call them Gummys or Gumboots, but never Wellingtons (as Wellington is the name of our capital and it’d get confusing)
@yorrike on a tangential note, I’m surprised NZ has not experienced a city renaming phenomena but then again, it still considers the Queen as head of state, like Australia, right?
@pratik Correct. However there has been a mass renaming. Almost everywhere that has an English name also has a Māori name. Wellington, for example, is Te Whanganui a Tara (the big harbour of Tara). Auckland is Tāmaki Makaurau. Mountains like Taranaki have been referred to by their original Māori name for a couple of generations now (replacing the colonial name of Mt Egmont). And misspelled road and place names are actively being renamed after decades of campaigning.