Hawaii Has A Word That’s Even Stranger Than Philadelphia’s ‘Jawn’

Around this time last year, Dan Nosowitz told us about the City of Brotherly Shove Love’s all-purpose word, jawn, which can stand in for any noun, abstract or concrete, proper or common. Since then, readers have alerted him to an even more flexible term, one that can function as noun, verb, adjective or adverb: da kine.