Comments on: What’s a humuhumunukunukuapua’a & how do you say it?

By: jade

jade — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:20:55 +0000

haha achually it isn’t dat hard for us ta say da state fish’s name when u grow up round da language, culture and your whole family speaks nativly (even my howlie daddy throws some Hawaiian Slag here n there) it isn’t that hard to learn. Guess its jus like a russian speakin russian, or a mexican speaking and reading spanish.

By: kimmy

kimmy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:57:53 +0000

I actually learned it from the deleted song on High School Musical 2. lol

Special.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:59:54 +0000

On HBO Family, they play a story of how the “stripey-stripey-dashy-dashy-pig-face” got it’s name. That’s how I learned how to say it.

By: Sandra Conroy

Sandra Conroy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:15:05 +0000

I won a trip to Maui by knowing the name of the fish and I knew the name because I learned the words to “Little Grass Shack” by Don Ho when I was a teenager.

By: HI born

HI born — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:15:45 +0000

I don’t know where the heck everyone in Hawaii learn the word. I think it may be the mandatory Hawaiian Languange classes forced upon kids uselessly in Kindergarten and like 3th Grade. It just makes logical sense to me.

Maybe the frustration isn’t completely useless.

By: Humuhumunukunuku what? « RSPA's Blog

Humuhumunukunuku what? « RSPA's Blog — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:11:17 +0000

[...] to sit down to a networking lunch (Thanks Elo/Tyco Electronics for sponsoring!) together at the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a Restaurant at the Grand Wailea Resort in Maui, Hawaii. Believe it or not, we weren’t [...]

By: sheila

sheila — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:15:50 +0000

FYI – I found out that the England’s Daily Mail referenced my post in this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352753/Aquarium-staff-welcome-unprounceable-Hawaiian-arrival-Humuhumunukunukuapuaa.html?ito%3Dfeeds-newsxml

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Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:23:28 +0000

[...] you know what the state fish of Hawaii is? humuhumunukunukuapua’a. Congratulations, now say [...]

By: sheila

sheila — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:56:05 +0000

Janet – it is, indeed!

By: sheila

sheila — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:55:41 +0000

Already taken? That’s too funny!

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:27:06 +0000

Isn’t it such a feeling of accomplishment when you can finally say it!

By: David Zuls

David Zuls — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:46:33 +0000

One time I tried to register humuhumunukunukuapuaa.com as a domain name because I thought Kalanianaole@humuhumunukunukuapuaa.com would make a cool email address to tell people over the phone.

Unfortunately it’s already taken.