Thursday 20 March 2008

Why are the Pacific Hawaiian and Atlantic British Words for Going to the Loo the Same?

RHINE VIEW

There sometimes is no obvious logic to things. In Britain, we go to the 'loo', while in Hawaii, they go to the 'lua', which is pronounced virtually the same. For a word that is so basic to a language, one has to wonder why they are more or less identical. Is the Hawaiian 'lua' a result of the British past on Hawaii? It would be wierd, would it not, if the Pacific Islanders had discovered Britain some 15,000 years ago, and left this word as a residue influence. Stranger things have happened.
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