Talk:Hawaii (island)

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The Island of Hawaii is an important place in the Pacific. It is not (although conterminous with) the County of Hawaii, a modern political division. Marshman 22:54, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

It seems to me that the county article should focus essentially on the county government (and therefore be fairly small), and the Hawaii Island article should focus on everything else.--Fellnearshiva 20:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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weasel terms? :

"However, the term "Big Island" is starting I was born and raised in Hawaii and have never heard the Big Island referred to as the "Orchid Island." Where did you come up with the following statement:

In fact, because of Hawai‘i Island's reputation for growing beautiful orchids, the island has the nickname "The Orchid Isle."

By "you" I presume you mean "you all"—I did not add that statement to the article, but I do find it hard to believe that you were raised on Hawai'i and have never heard the island referred to as the "orchid island" (of course I'm also assuming you have been on the planet for more than 20 years). I agree, it is not at all used locally anywhere in the state, but is/was certainly common in tourist literature. It is perhaps a lot less used now that Kona side has become the focus of the tourist industry, as the term was likely devised to attract tourists to the Hilo area where the big orhid growers are located. I suppose some modification of the article is in order, to reflect the declining and non-local sense/use of the term - Marshman 19:17, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

On a related note, I've lived in Chicagoland my whole life (I'm 21), and didn't know what "chi-town" was untill earlier this year - reason: Chicagoans don't use it ;P. -Aknorals 23:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

It's hip hop culture slang. Are you part of that subculture, or do you expose yourself to it? If not, that might explain why you haven't heard the term. Personally, I think chi-town is still used, but it's like frisco, if you live in SF, you'll never hear that term, but people use it all the time outside the city. Furthermore, I think you were 10 years-old when the term became mainstream, so you might not have paid as much attention to it as you do now. —Viriditas | Talk 01:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)