Spelling Trouble entertains the troops with his ukulele. The origins of the ukulele lie in a Hawaiian development of an instrument introduced to the island by the Portuguese in the late 19 th century. Modern dictionaries prefer the ukulele spelling, but accept ukelele as an alternative — both are listed in OED and Chambers. They were a very healthy, happy, strong people.
They brought things with them like the idea of land ownership, written language, and many other Western concepts. Not to mention disease. The missionaries were quick to downplay Hawaiian culture and spirituality while encouraging them to worship their one God, making efforts to suppress hula and cultural practices.
Flash forward a handful of decades to the golden era of the modern Hawaiian Kingdom and our little 4-stringed friend enters the picture. In the Ravenscrag docked in Honolulu harbor, bringing with it Portuguese immigrants to work in the sugar cane fields and their traditional instruments. These traditional instruments morphed over the next few years into what we now know as the ukulele. There was a palace. There were kings and queens, princes and princesses.
There was dignity the likes of which the rest of the world could only envy. They managed to strip the King of his power and put it instead in the hands of a new governmental body. There was major pushback from the Hawaiian people as the cabinet made moves to annex the Kingdom to the US.
Stevens, has caused United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support the said Provisional Government.
Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said forces, yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representative and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
After the industries of sugar and pineapple began to subside, money shifted towards tourism. If a culture invented the item, they get to name it.
Just like a regular person's name. It is pronounced a certain way, wouldn't it be annoying if someone pronounced your name weird because it's how they want to. It's a disrespect of another culture and changing that culture's own word because arrogant people think their culture is superior and is allowed to change another culture. Hi Barry, great rant! Agreed wholeheartedly. Takes the pressure off to sound "correct" one way or the other.
Awesome site and YouTube channel by the way, new follower here! PS funny how this comments section became yet another language debate among people?! Guess there's no getting away from it ha ha. Please leave me a comment! Want To Say Thank You? How do YOU pronounce ukulele? It's an argument that has been running for years and years. I kind of hoped it must have run its course by now, but no. The 'what is the correct way to pronounce ukulele debate' is alive and kicking.
I lose the will to live with it. Anyway, I thought it was probably time to nail my colours to the mast. Or at the very least give me an easy to find statement that I can just share on the next discussion that I see going on and on.. Please note - this is 'irony' Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. Labels: articles , pronunciation , rants. Anonymous 5 April at BST. Unknown 5 April at BST. Jon 5 April at BST. Matt 6 April at BST. Glenn 20 April at BST. Unknown 21 April at BST.
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