I know that David Farrar works incredibly hard on his blog, and no matter how much those of us on the left of politics hate to admit it, Kiwiblog is a must read.  But today I fear David has scored an own goal for his National Party masters, by taking the media to task over their incorrect description of people from Afghanistan.  As David rightly points out they are not Afghanis, they are Afghans. A small error, but an error all the same.

More fundamentally perhaps, they are also not ” Afghanistanians” as Mr Key would have us believe in this interview with Radio NZ ( 7.12 story right about the 3:40 mark). 

Thanks for reminding us of this particular mangling of the English language, David!