New Zealand Icons
Icon, icon, icons, iconic and 10 more icons. My Oxford Concise Dictionary tells me icon means an image or statue (Gk Orth. Church) or a painting/mosaic of a sacred person. But Forest & Bird has ‘New Zealand’s scenic icons’ ‘10 icons of Southern New Zealand’, ‘iconic New Zealand landscapes’ plus ‘icon katipo’ and ‘our coastal icon’ Please Forest & Bird contributors, take a deep breath and vow never to use this recently surfaced, much overworked and wrongly used word ever again. — PAT MENZIES RD6, Dannevirke Overworked perhaps, but our Oxford Concise Dictionary also includes: ‘an object of particular admiration, esp. as a representative symbol of something, in these cases our outstanding wildlife, natural features and landscapes.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 307, 1 February 2003, Page 3
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117New Zealand Icons Forest and Bird, Issue 307, 1 February 2003, Page 3
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