Five-year-old Mahinarangi, teaches peers to pronounce her name correctly because she's proud of it. Five-year-old Mahinarangi Tautu just wants people to try to say her full name. When Mahinarangi started daycare, her mother Paris was told her name had been shortened to "Rangi" because it was too hard to pronounce. "My ancestors changed their original name from Perepe-Perana to Phillips because of colonisation," Tautu told the Herald on Sunday. But now with ongoing support from her mother, Mahinarangi is encouraging people to sound out her name.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 28, 2021 07:45 UTC