tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11442997.post8000886474014495322..comments2023-10-21T16:33:03.208+01:00Comments on unhemmed: what are the other ones, Graeme?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11442997.post-21063370131507222292007-03-18T08:43:00.000+00:002007-03-18T08:43:00.000+00:00If we attend a luau some evening on Waikiki & wat...If we attend a luau some evening on Waikiki & watch lei-bedecked hula dancers & muumuu-begowned matrons swaying to the gentle strains of the Big Kahuna's ukelele, we might find out wikiwiki about some of those highly distinguished words.<BR/><BR/>Btw, Hawaii's state fish is the rectangular triggerfish, known locally as "humuhumunukunukuapuaa", a word which to my thoroughly undruid ears has more than a passing resemblance to the lilting cadences of that lovely language still spoken natively in some parts of Cymru.<BR/><BR/>AlohaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11442997.post-5358728007009056462007-03-16T18:14:00.000+00:002007-03-16T18:14:00.000+00:00Luau? Hula?Luau? Hula?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11442997.post-77295184081198875582007-03-16T17:02:00.000+00:002007-03-16T17:02:00.000+00:00I had always thought Tiki was Hawaiian, but it's M...I had always thought Tiki was Hawaiian, but it's Maori. Tell us Jon, what are t'others?<BR/>CAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com