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Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English -based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi. An estimated 600,000 residents of Hawaiʻi speak Hawaiian Pidgin natively and 400,000 speak it as a second language. [2][3][4][5] Although English and Hawaiian are the two official languages of the ...
Cibotium menziesii, the hāpuʻu ʻiʻi or Hawaiian tree fern, [2] is a species of tree fern that is endemic to the islands of Hawaiʻi. It is named after the Scottish naturalist Archibald Menzies . It is also known as the male tree fern , and Cibotium glaucum is deemed the female tree fern due to differences in color.
Da Kine Bail Bonds is a Honolulu, Hawaii -based bail bonds company owned by Duane "Dog" Chapman, the title character in the A&E reality TV series Dog the Bounty Hunter. [9] "Da Kine" is cited as the callsign meaning of KINE-FM 105.1, a Honolulu -based Hawaiian music radio station. "Da Kine" is a song from the 1999 album Shaka the Moon by ...
Loanwords from the Japanese language in Hawaiʻi appear in various parts of the culture. Many loanwords in Hawaiian Pidgin (or Hawaiian Creole English) derive from the Japanese language. The linguistic influences of the Japanese in Hawaiʻi began with the first immigrants from Japan in 1868 and continues with the large Japanese American ...
Pidgin Hawaiian (or Hawaii Plantation Pidgin[1]) is a pidgin spoken in Hawaii, which draws most of its vocabulary from the Hawaiian language and could have been influenced by other pidgins of the Pacific Ocean region, such as Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. Emerging in the mid-nineteenth century, it was spoken mainly by immigrants to Hawaii, and ...
Brighamia insignis, commonly known as ʻŌlulu or Alula in Hawaiian, [3] or colloquially as the vulcan palm[4] or cabbage on a stick, [5] is a species of Hawaiian lobelioid in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. It is native to the islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau, but has been extinct in the wild since at least 2019-2020.
Exocarpos menziesii can be found in Hawaii and is known historically on the island of Lanai. The range was once much larger, stretching from Kahuku Ranch to Hualalia and Pukapelle. Metrosideros shrubland or in dry forested areas. They are also sparsely distributed on lava flows between 1,400 and 2,100 m (4,600 and 6,900 ft) above sea level.
Okolehao. ʻŌkolehao is a Hawaiian alcoholic spirit whose main ingredient was the root of the ti plant. 'Ōkolehao's forerunner was a fermented ti root beverage or beer. When distillation techniques were introduced by English seamen in 1790, it was distilled into a highly alcoholic spirit. Hawaiians discovered that if the ti root is baked, a ...