Okolehau/okolehao

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>OKOLEHAU--213 Google hits, 37 Google Groups hits
>
>Will "Okolehau" be in the revised OED?
>
>Yes, I saw that cut-off 1917 CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE citation. We have some
>Hawaii newspaper coverage in Newspaperarchive. How old is "okolehau" as a
>popular drink? The thing is this--"Holy Cow!" is no later than 1920, and
>almost certainly before.
>
>It wasn't coined by baseball announcers in New York or Chicago.

Why would anybody think it was?

"Okolehao": lots of Google hits.

In MW3.

N'archive from 1895.

-- Doug Wilson