Sunday, October 14, 2007

Word of the Day

The word for Monday, October 15, 2007 is puke. It is Hawaiian for book. Yeah I know, it looks like a word I just "spit out" but for the most part it was a word I used frequently at work. It seems that everytime I sat down in my noho, I was having to get back up to grab the puke I had just had in my hands.

Pronunciation
Pu-ke
pu as Pooh in Winnie the Pooh
ke as Kay in Kayla

Sample Sentences
Can you grab that puke off of my noho.
The author of this puke is welawela.
It is a puke about a guy that is learning to box in a hale anu.

A Hui Hou,
Shawn