Vocabulary.

Here in Hawaii, normal conversations are often peppered with words and phrases borrowed from Hawaiian, such as aloha, maholo (thank you), pau hana (finished working), pilau (stinky or awful), and hordes of others which I can’t remember unless I’m talking to a local.

Gas Plume at Halema’uma’u Crater (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Geologists worldwide refer to various kinds of lava using Hawaiian words as well: Thick slow moving lava that cools into sharply-pointed piles of rock is kn...