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The American Heritage Dictionary notes: “The word taboo first appears in English in the journals of Captain James Cook. ... In 1777, Cook wrote that the word ‘taboo ... has a very comprehensive meaning; but, in general, signifies that a thing is forbidden. ... When any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that it is taboo.’ Cook was in Tonga at the time, and so it is the Tongan form 'tabu' that is the source of the English word 'taboo.' However, words related to Tongan tabu are found in other Polynesian languages, such as Maori 'tapu' and Hawaiian 'kapu.' (In the history of Hawaiian, the original Polynesian t-sound has regularly changed to a k-sound.)" We therefore learn that this native Hawaiian word “kapu” would have been the first version of our term “taboo” used in what is now American territory.
Bipartisanship is rare in Washington, but President Joe Biden’s national intelligence director, Avril Haines, managed to unite Senate Democrats and Republicans this week after she declined to show the Senate Intelligence Committee copies of classified documents discovered at the properties of past and present Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
