On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:07:11 +0000, Steve Pope wrote:

> Horry > wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:03:01 +1300, bob wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:55:34 +0100, (Victor Sack)
>>> shouted from the highest rooftop:
>
>>>>A few handy hints: a kiwi is a bird, the little thing in your grocery
>>>>store is called a kiwi fruit.
>>>
>>> Correction: a kiwi is not only a flightless, two legged bird native to
>>> New Zealand, it is also the name used for a flightless, two legged
>>> human inhabitant of New Zealand.
>
>>They're Kiwis, not kiwis.
>
> So is a Kiwi a New Zealander of European descent, or any New Zealander?

Any New Zealander. Every Maori I've met (and I married one of them) has
identified as a "Kiwi".

> (And is it in fact capitalized? Usually one does not capitalize brit.)

It's used a proper noun, so I'd capitalize it. But I'd also capitalize
Brit, Yank, and Aussie