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Its features will include the ability to access and print out past copies of the Dictionary Centre newsletter, NZWords, a list of dictionaries published from the Centre, as well asa page for direct entry of words or phrases which you think may be new or may reflect new uses.  \nThe current project on the Centre's agenda is a New Zealand version of the New Oxford Dictionary of English. As well as updating, in more concise form, the Dictionary of New Zealand English, this will include several thousand entries on people, places and events of New Zealand significance.  \nThere are several US-NZ wordlists on the Internet, mostly put together by New Zealanders, which point up the different meanings of common words on the two countries—words like jelly (jam in the United States, jelly here) . While these lists have considerable merit, it should also be noted that the origins of some words are wrongly ascribed. This has occurred, I believe, because some words attributed to New Zealand came into our vocabulary in the 1920s-1940sor thereabouts from the US and are now thought by younger New Zealanders to have originated here. Possibly, they have dropped out of general usage in America but are still current here. (One example is party pooper, which was used in the United States in the 1950s and to my knowledge only became common currency here much later.) Turning to recent usages, words we have noted recently or have been asked about are:  \nBALE AGE, HAYLAGE. Jim Cameron sends us these two terms which he says have been around in rural New Zealand for the last ten or so years. What are haylage and baleage?  \nOctober usually yields silage, haylage. More mature grass is  \nharvested as hay. [1995 Growing Today Nov. 42]  \nBRIDGE PIE. Jackie Davis asks if we know the origin of this term which is'exclusively a Taranaki word for a small mince savoury'. We don't. Is it perhaps from a cafe or bakery near a bridge in, say, Patea or Waitara ? Is it something you serve at bridge parties? Can anyone help?  \nKōtare 4, no. 1 (2001), pp. 64–72.  \n2  \nBROWN FLAT & PORTOBELLO. Two \"foodie\" terms for large mushrooms, as opposed to button mushrooms.  \nActually, these \"brown flat\", \"gourmet browns\", \"portobellos\" (call them what you will) are nothing more than brown button mushrooms which have been allowed to grow up. [2000 Evening Post, 17th Oct.  \n16]  \nI first assumed that Portobello was associated with Portobello, near Dunedin, but the place-name also occurs in Scotland, Maryland and Panama—the last was named by Columbus in 1502. It appears, however, that portobellos were introduced commercially to New Zealand from South Africa in 1992. Although I have since found them mentioned in Second Wind by English crime-writer Dick Francis, the preponderance of US listings on the Internet suggests the term probably originated in Maryland.  \nThese big brown mushrooms...are an American strain of the standard cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus. In the United States, they are known as portobello. [1994 Listener 16th July 60] An extremely large, dark brown mushroom that is simply the fully mature form of Crimino, which in turn is a variation of the common cultivated white mushroom. The name \"portobello\" began to be used in the 1980s asa brilliant marketing ploy to popularize an unglamorous mushroom that, more often that not, had to be disposed of because growers couldn't sell them. [All Recipes Encyclopaedia  \n([www.al](www.al)[lrecipes.com/encyclo/terms](lrecipes.com/encyclo/terms) )]  \nCONSERVATORY. 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