“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

Hammajang, a Hawaii pidgin term for messed up, is now listed as an adjective to the Oxford English Dictionary. It is one of more than 600 new words, senses and phrases added to the dictionary in ...

HILO — Pidgin, the local lingua franca that emerged so the many different ethnicities who toiled on sugar plantations could converse with each other, is now recognized as one Hawaii’s official ...

MILILANI, OAHU (AP) — When Hawaii comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Travel to Hawaii is expected to get busier in the coming months after the state dropped its indoor mask mandate and Safe Travels Hawaii program for domestic Trans-Pacific travelers.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Good news, Hawaii: You’ve got some new words for your Scrabble arsenal. Among hundreds of recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary are two words most folks in ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Travel to Hawaii is expected to get busier these coming months after the state dropped its indoor mask mandate and the Safe Travels Hawaii program for domestic Trans-Pacific ...