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humuhumunukunukuapua'a?

Trigger fish.

drcorey wrote:humuhumunukunukuapua'a?

Sounds like something I might say after some good rum.

It's actually a kind of fish. Worth googling.

There's a restaurant in Pensacola called Trigger's that specializes in triggerfish and other seafood dishes. Yummy!

Big Wallaby wrote:It's actually a kind of fish. Worth googling.

Yeah, it's the state fish of Hawai'i

One time many years ago, my youngest sister went to Hawaii. She asked me what I wanted her to bring back, and I said a Hawaiian dictionary. I'd seen one in the library and it looked interesting. But after she bought it, she lost it somehow, so she bought me a Hawaiian phrase book instead. I don't think she had enough to buy another dictionary. I still have it, it's in storage. But I remember in the introduction that the author asks you to breeze through the name of this little fish, and it was the triggerfish. Then they tell you that an aid to saying/remembering/learning it is to make it into some kind of verse by seperating the word into parts. But thanks to you, Hobie, I finally know what that word refers to--it wasn't translated in the book! :D: