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The figure of the Big Kahuna became commonplace in Beach party films of the 1960s, such as Beach Blanket Bingo, in which the Big Kahuna was the best surfer on the beach. Hawaiian surfing master Duke Kahanamoku may have been referred to as the Big Kahuna, but he rejected the term as he knew the original meaning. [20]
Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0209-8. Philip Babcock Gove, Noah Webster, ed. (1976). Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language. Merriam G. & C. ISBN 0-87779-103-1
Cooke, Mary, A Kahuna in the Kitchen, The Honolulu Advertiser (Sept. 8, 1982) Health, freedom from stress, the Hawaiian Kahuna way, Carson City Nevada Appeal (Nov. 21, 1982) Five Persons Are Named as Living Treasures, Honolulu Star Bulletin (Feb. 12, 1983) Three health workshops stalted at Kalani Honua, Hawaiʻi Tribune Herald (April 13, 1983)
The original introduction of the oriental rat flea to Hawaii is unknown. In 1899, the Nippon Maru anchored in Honolulu Harbor en route to San Francisco, and reported the death of a Chinese passenger. After inspection, the ship had been confined to Quarantine Island, better known today as Sand Island. After a week-long stay there, the ship had ...
One major feature is Pa o ka menehune (which means literally "wall of the ancients" [3]), a breakwater constructed in Ancient Hawaii that might have once enclosed the entire bay. Since construction of a heiau using the dry-stack masonry technique ( uhau humu pohaku ) was a major undertaking, it is unusual to find the concentration of about ten ...
Saimin is a compound of two Chinese words: 細 (pinyin: xì; Jyutping: sai3), meaning small, and 麵 (pinyin: miàn; Jyutping: min6), meaning noodle. The word derives from the Cantonese language, reflecting the immigration of Chinese people from Guangdong to Hawaii. The word "saimin" is still used commonly in written Cantonese today.
Hawaii Route 160 winds downhill from Route 11 to connect the communities of Hōnaunau and Nāpōʻopoʻo. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Honaunau-Napoopoo CDP has a total area of 40.7 square miles (105.4 km 2 ), of which 38.0 square miles (98.4 km 2 ) are land and 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2 ), or 6.66%, are water.
The spread of literacy in the Hawaiian alphabet likely contributed to the spread of the [k] allophone to Hawaii's westernmost islands. [ 9 ] The missionaries also found allophonic variation between [ ɹ ] and [ ɾ ] (written with d ) and [ l ] , between [ v ] and [ w ] , and between [ b ] and [ p ] .