To: Red Steel
Why is Hawaii typed or spelled Hawai’i???? Twice??
Just curious..
To: Thank You Rush
"Why is Hawaii spelled Hawai'i not just once but twice?
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48 posted on
07/13/2009 6:04:13 PM PDT by
Spunky
(You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences.)
To: Thank You Rush
Why is Hawaii typed or spelled Hawai’i???? Twice?? An attempt to get the pronunciation closer to the way the Hawaiians say it. Sort of like the change in spelling of Bombay to Mumbai.
I work with a guy from there, an old guy, he's Indian not British, although I think, like BHO, he was born a British subject, but he doesn't like the change.
49 posted on
07/13/2009 6:07:07 PM PDT by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Thank You Rush
Why is Hawaii typed or spelled Hawai’i???? Twice??There is a glottal stop between the i's. Hawai'i is how Hawaiians spell Hawaii...
53 posted on
07/13/2009 6:31:37 PM PDT by
null and void
(We are now in day 174 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Thank You Rush
Hawai’i is how the name is spelled in the Hawaiian language. The apostrophe indicates a glottal stop, like “uh-oh.” You often see the two spellings interchanged.
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