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What IS this word?!
Is it English?
I found it in a dictionary of wordplay as an example of a word where there are vowels every other letter, but I'm pretty sure it's a real word.
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Ah ha!
Thanks!
vowels every other letter:
I think it meant regardless of any extra vowels in between.
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The humuhumunukunukuapuaa was, for awhile, the state fish of Hawaii, but after the enabling legislation ran out the state legislature failed to renew it so the fish was sunk.
who-moo-/who-moo-/new-koo/-new-koo/-ahhh-poo/-ahhh-/ahhhh!
There is a glottal stop between the last ywo a'a s!
It's very pretty too!
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I learned about this fish a few years ago when my kids read about it in "Ranger Rick" magazine. It is pretty! My understanding is that the name means "colors all mixed up" or something similar.
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I always wondered why such a big name for such a small fish..
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I guess it needed something to make it feel big out there among all those predators.
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Yep, after all, they say the pen is mightier than the sword... I guess there could be some obscure link there!
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