I'm unfortunately not watching from Hawai'i anymore, since i moved about a year ago, but i would have been watching this video from Hilo, on the island of Hawai'i!
I'm sure that's how, or why, some places have the same spelling but different pronunciation. Pronunciations and accents are an easy way to figure out you're not from around that area. Half the cities in Tennessee are pronounced differently.
Quick correction at 4:24, it's "Hawai'i-Loa" not "Hawaiolia"; it's easier to say if you visualize it as two words that are connected together when written. "Loa" like "Lo(w)-A(h)". Also, the "w" character is pronounced "v" like if you relate to how many Germanic and Slavic languages are similar to this, unless the "w" begins the word, like in "Waimea", this would be pronounced as written (Wa like "water"), but "Haleiwa" would be "Ha-le-i-Va" and "Kahoolawe" actually being "Ka-ho/o-la-Ve" with a hard break between the two "o"s. Another hint at pronunciation here is that Hawaiian language is largely syllabic so if you break it down into syllables it's easier to pronounce. BTW you pronounced "Niihau" spot on! Treat the two "o"s in "Kahoolawe" like you do the two "i"s in "Niihau". Thank you for your Hawai'i coverage by the way, it's good to be seen here. Aloha from our islands!
As a regular solver of crossword puzzles, I know that "lanai" is a word for a type of porch. But I don't know if there's a connection between that word and the name of the island.
Our apartment in Honolulu had what we called a lanai. In several years on Oahu, I never heard anyone use the words "porch" or "patio". It was always the "lanai". We were kids, though; it might have been different with adults.
We used to have, in the family, a fascinating bound copy of the editions of the Russian 'Niva' ('Cornfield') illustrated newspaper from 1888. Unfortunately, it was one of the things that had to go in my house move of now exactly half-a-decade back. One of the things that sticks in my memory about it was an illustration of the curious activity of surfing, in what was called - in Russian, obviously! - The Sandwich Islands, so unless the Russians were very late in adopting the name Hawaii I should place that change from The Sandwich Islands to Hawaii in the late Nineteenth Century.
I had no clue "Earl of Sandwich" was a bigger chain, I just thought the one on the Boston Common just went for the obvious pun. Also: the third founder is Robert Earl, meaning the company was founded by The 11th Earl, the Earl's son and Mr Earl.
Name Explain, over 130 islands, specifically 137. Point #2, during my time over the past 5 or so years, as I've been trying to gather place names across the country with unexpected pronunciations, I've found that they originate from: Basque, British English, Dutch, Flemish, French, Middle French, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Old English, Old Norse, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh, plus at least 120 US Native languages. The OR town of Aloha = uh-LOW-uh (typo: it was supposed to have been spelled ‘Aloah, but the USPS got it wrong. Uh . . Hawai'iloa is not pronounced ha-wye-OH-lee-uh, but hah-wye-ee-LOW-ah. Moku o Keawe = MOE-coo oh kay-AH-way. Kahoolawe = cah-hoh-oh-LA-way. Lanai'i's longer name is la-NYE oh cow-LOU-ah-ow. Good job with Moloka'i, Oahu, Kaua'i, and Ni'ihau. Ni'ihau, at least historically, was set aside to preserve the language and culture of Hawai'i.
Infamously destructive volcanos? There's an active one on the big island, but the flow isn't headed towards a major population center. It blocked one of the entrances to a national park... the volcanos are pretty tame at this point
Lol what? Over 600 homes were destroyed in 2018 from the lava flow. To the thousands of people who lost their homes, yes, it is destructive. Now that we understand the lava flow, its easier to estimate where the lava flows will go, but still poses a major threat to people in Hilo due to how unpredictable the volcanos can be. The volcanic gasses are also obviously a threat to the whole island and the neighboring islands like us in Maui.
I can see the advantages, but I think the average standard of living would go down. And even the median income would down and the poor would be poorer. Plus they would have to pay a tax on Spam.
What if it's not a coincidence that it sounds like the Chinese word for hello? The island next to it sounds like a Japanese word and if they used Islands as navigational points then maybe that's at least part of why
@@JackDecker63 an entire video could be made about why captain cook is a POS and has nothing to do with explaining the names of Hawaii so find another video that explains it if you want to find out about it 🤷🏻♀️ all the technology in your hands but no desire to actually use it
Lol, making the name native didn’t stop the Dole plantation system and didn’t stop the land investments that make it so that native people can barely live there, so try not to take names so hard.
What compels non-Native folks to make videos about indigenous people only completely butcher the language and history of the people and places they're setting themselves up to be educational voices on is beyond me. 4:23 "Huh-why-olia"... this is so embarassing. If you don't know anything about something, don't make a video about it.
He regularly butchers other names as well. It's part of Patrick's charm. Have you heard any of his French pronunciations? He means well but pronunciations are not his strong suit, but he produces videos out of an enthusiasm for words. I get that native people have been thoroughly s#it on by European colonists, but this guy truly means well. I suggest finding another channel if this is upsetting to you. (And I don't blame you for being upset, truly.)
Are you watching from Hawaii? If so which island?
O'ahu! Watching at 5:45am 😅😅😅
O‘ahu 🌺
I'm unfortunately not watching from Hawai'i anymore, since i moved about a year ago, but i would have been watching this video from Hilo, on the island of Hawai'i!
@@maplemoths.Someone from Hilo won a Nobel Prize a few years ago.
Big fan from O'ahu! Love your content. :)
Fun fact: the locals of Aloha, Oregon actually pronounce it differently from how you'd expect. It's a dead giveaway who's from the area and who isn't!
lol. I was just about to say the same thing. Same thing with the willamette river and couch street.
AlohA not aloHa.
Carmel, NY is pronounced differently from Carmel, CA. And Bogota, NJ is embarrassingly pronounced differently than Bogota, Colombia.
@@AndImsomelady I'm not quite clear on that stressing. Would that be nearly identical to the Scottish town, Alloa, then?
I'm sure that's how, or why, some places have the same spelling but different pronunciation. Pronunciations and accents are an easy way to figure out you're not from around that area. Half the cities in Tennessee are pronounced differently.
Quick correction at 4:24, it's "Hawai'i-Loa" not "Hawaiolia"; it's easier to say if you visualize it as two words that are connected together when written. "Loa" like "Lo(w)-A(h)".
Also, the "w" character is pronounced "v" like if you relate to how many Germanic and Slavic languages are similar to this, unless the "w" begins the word, like in "Waimea", this would be pronounced as written (Wa like "water"), but "Haleiwa" would be "Ha-le-i-Va" and "Kahoolawe" actually being "Ka-ho/o-la-Ve" with a hard break between the two "o"s. Another hint at pronunciation here is that Hawaiian language is largely syllabic so if you break it down into syllables it's easier to pronounce.
BTW you pronounced "Niihau" spot on! Treat the two "o"s in "Kahoolawe" like you do the two "i"s in "Niihau".
Thank you for your Hawai'i coverage by the way, it's good to be seen here. Aloha from our islands!
Had to like this just for the Earl of Sandwich digression. Simply lovely commentary. And a great video about naming Hawaii.
As a regular solver of crossword puzzles, I know that "lanai" is a word for a type of porch. But I don't know if there's a connection between that word and the name of the island.
Our apartment in Honolulu had what we called a lanai. In several years on Oahu, I never heard anyone use the words "porch" or "patio". It was always the "lanai". We were kids, though; it might have been different with adults.
that's because it's actually lana'i (lah-nah-ee)
I bought your book, which is really interesting. Thanks :)
At 0:27
Alaska not sharing a border with the "mainland USA"....
We call it, "the lower 48", some just call it "the 48"....
We used to have, in the family, a fascinating bound copy of the editions of the Russian 'Niva' ('Cornfield') illustrated newspaper from 1888. Unfortunately, it was one of the things that had to go in my house move of now exactly half-a-decade back. One of the things that sticks in my memory about it was an illustration of the curious activity of surfing, in what was called - in Russian, obviously! - The Sandwich Islands, so unless the Russians were very late in adopting the name Hawaii I should place that change from The Sandwich Islands to Hawaii in the late Nineteenth Century.
Awesome lesson 🥰🤘 Land Back.
I had no clue "Earl of Sandwich" was a bigger chain, I just thought the one on the Boston Common just went for the obvious pun.
Also: the third founder is Robert Earl, meaning the company was founded by The 11th Earl, the Earl's son and Mr Earl.
Name Explain, over 130 islands, specifically 137. Point #2, during my time over the past 5 or so years, as I've been trying to gather place names across the country with unexpected pronunciations, I've found that they originate from: Basque, British English, Dutch, Flemish, French, Middle French, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Old English, Old Norse, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh, plus at least 120 US Native languages.
The OR town of Aloha = uh-LOW-uh (typo: it was supposed to have been spelled ‘Aloah, but the USPS got it wrong.
Uh . . Hawai'iloa is not pronounced ha-wye-OH-lee-uh, but hah-wye-ee-LOW-ah. Moku o Keawe = MOE-coo oh kay-AH-way. Kahoolawe = cah-hoh-oh-LA-way. Lanai'i's longer name is la-NYE oh cow-LOU-ah-ow. Good job with Moloka'i, Oahu, Kaua'i, and Ni'ihau.
Ni'ihau, at least historically, was set aside to preserve the language and culture of Hawai'i.
I have always been told Kahoolawe is the forgotten island.
Hawai'i is also the only state in the USA to have a royal residence.
Guam will probably get statehood before Puerto Rico.
Infamously destructive volcanos? There's an active one on the big island, but the flow isn't headed towards a major population center. It blocked one of the entrances to a national park... the volcanos are pretty tame at this point
Lol what? Over 600 homes were destroyed in 2018 from the lava flow. To the thousands of people who lost their homes, yes, it is destructive. Now that we understand the lava flow, its easier to estimate where the lava flows will go, but still poses a major threat to people in Hilo due to how unpredictable the volcanos can be. The volcanic gasses are also obviously a threat to the whole island and the neighboring islands like us in Maui.
There's another place in the mainland USA named after a place in Hawaii, or rather Hawaii itself: Owyhee County, Idaho, the oldest one in the state.
Why this guy said Fargo ND I’ll never know? But thanks for mentioning my home state.
Earl of Sandwich is delicious
10:50 Patrick, please for the love of god don't draw the southern part of Louisiana around New Orleans as a pair of lips kissing the Gulf Of Mexico
An Island? Only Robinson? Why have I thoughts of Robinson Crusoe?
Aloha, Oregon, is named aftre Alloa, Wisconsin.
I don’t think the founder of Hawaii had a beard and a mustache.
Where's Part: II tho 🤔🤔
Olelo Hawaii is our language. Hawaiian is a nationality. No Olelo Hawaii words end in consonates.
idk how they got their name TELL ME
Aloha!
Hawaii should not be part of the country and it should be independent and make an alliance with the other Polynesian countries
I can see the advantages, but I think the average standard of living would go down. And even the median income would down and the poor would be poorer. Plus they would have to pay a tax on Spam.
History's biggest scumbag... that's a big call
Yeah, and Cook ain't it.
@@Bacopa68 he was a bit of a scumbag. But he wasn't even the biggest scumbag in the Royal Navy at that time.
Ohh…Hawaii are the Sandwich Islands, hence why those islands near Antarctica are the SOUTH Sandwich Islands!!!
@9:58 bro u hacked my. Mind ?
I Refute your claim on behalf of James Cook, there are many worse scumbags, for example, Cecil Rhodes.
Absolutely, and King Leopold too.
What if it's not a coincidence that it sounds like the Chinese word for hello? The island next to it sounds like a Japanese word and if they used Islands as navigational points then maybe that's at least part of why
🤦 no lol.
@@jahdinn why the face palm?
@@GaasubaMeskhenet cuz ur comment is sooooo silly
@@jahdinn how
idk
Why the dig at Captain Cook without any explanation? Seems rather petty and unnecessary.
Why dont you google what captain cook has done to Hawaii and why he was killed by Hawaiian natives? Theres a whole wikipedia article about it lol
@@jahdinn Oh, this video makes an unsupported dig at a famous historical figure and it is MY responsibility to try to figure out why. Got ya.🙄
@@JackDecker63 an entire video could be made about why captain cook is a POS and has nothing to do with explaining the names of Hawaii so find another video that explains it if you want to find out about it 🤷🏻♀️ all the technology in your hands but no desire to actually use it
Lol, making the name native didn’t stop the Dole plantation system and didn’t stop the land investments that make it so that native people can barely live there, so try not to take names so hard.
"History's biggest scumbag" when talking about our good man James Cook. Dislike just for that.
blud out here defending racist murdering coloniser cook 💀
If you're going to have a video on names of a place please take the time to learn how to pronounce them.
What compels non-Native folks to make videos about indigenous people only completely butcher the language and history of the people and places they're setting themselves up to be educational voices on is beyond me. 4:23 "Huh-why-olia"... this is so embarassing. If you don't know anything about something, don't make a video about it.
He regularly butchers other names as well. It's part of Patrick's charm. Have you heard any of his French pronunciations? He means well but pronunciations are not his strong suit, but he produces videos out of an enthusiasm for words. I get that native people have been thoroughly s#it on by European colonists, but this guy truly means well. I suggest finding another channel if this is upsetting to you. (And I don't blame you for being upset, truly.)
that's a reasonable criticism but man is just like that
@New_Wave_Nancy @@pannacottafUWUgo stop👏🏽 justifying 👏🏽mediocrity! 👏🏽
It was the "moko o koyeway" at 4:43 that made me stop watching 🥴 cmon man u can just google how to pronounce it