Now, how do you say the name of “that” Hawaiian fish?

Have you ever wanted to know how to properly pronounce the well known Hawaiian fish, humuhumunukunukuapua’a?  This cool Kona Hawaii Scuba Diver’s blog post breaks the pronunciation down into an easy to understand way:  

“who moo who moo new coo new coo ah poo ah ah”

Mahalo, Kona Hawaii Scuba Diver, for explaining it to us who aren’t kama`ainas!

 

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