Then again, believe what you will as I'm (obviously) no expert on Hawaiian history. Just look at my first post - I used the word kahunas not once but twice - and here I thought I'd learned something reading the first few posts on this thread!

I use kahunas all of the time because if I were to use the plural form in Hawai'i; I would waste a tremendous amount of time explaining about the Hawaii'ian oral tradition, and the Hawai'ians foif not signify plurals the way we do here in the west.