For years, Lee Tonouchi has fostered a growing respect and love for Pidgin, a language once reviled as lazy, inferior — or ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — You may not notice it, you may not speak it, you may not understand it but make no mistakes about it, Hawaiiʻs pidgin accent is tops in the U.S. Get Hawaii’s latest morning news ...

Artist Harry Lyons drew Columbia Inn owner Tosh Kaneshiro wearing an “Ain’ no beeg t’ing” button. Kaneshiro was a Dodger fan, and the team struggled to win a World Series. In Hawaii, people from China ...

MILILANI, Hawaii (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 ...

Above, one of the first local comedy albums was Kent Bowman’s “Pidgin English Children’s Stories” in 1961. Above, Douglas Simonson’s “Pidgin to Da Max” comic-­style book sold an astounding 25,000 ...

<h1>Proud of Our Pidgin: The Newest Language in the U.S. Census</h1> <p>Pau. I stared hard at the word, written in Magic Marker on colored cardstock and tacked up on ...

Jun. 26—"Peter and the Wolf, " the classic children's story set to music, gets an island touch this week with performances in pidgin, Hawaiian and English. The popular work by Russian composer Sergei ...