A surprising insight I saw just yesterday for the first time, was when someone referred to Waitangi (aka "founding place of New Zealand in 1840" - see "Treaty of Waitangi" for details) as the "sad water place".
"Sad water place". If you think about it, and break down the meaning of the constituent parts of that name, that's actually what it means. "Wai" = water, "tangi" = a event filled with sadness / mourning for the dead.
Hmm... The more you think about it, the more different meanings you can suddenly read into these things... Oh the things you don't realise until much later - much like song lyrics, and finding old stuff from the past.
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