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To: Red Steel

Completely off topic: why does he stick an apostrophe in Hawaii?
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3 posted on 11/17/2008 12:02:03 AM PST by PosterQue (Pumped about Palin!)
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To: PosterQue

Because that is the correct Hawaiian spelling - and my screen name should be Kaua’ibound.


4 posted on 11/17/2008 12:15:06 AM PST by KAUAIBOUND (Hawaii - paradise infested with left-wing cockroaches and centipedes)
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To: PosterQue

Have you looked up this guy Andy Martin he is a who’s who in litigation. He is a quack!


5 posted on 11/17/2008 12:17:42 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: PosterQue

That’s the way it’s spelled.

See for yourself:

http://www.courts.state.hi.us/


6 posted on 11/17/2008 12:18:06 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: PosterQue
"...why does he stick an apostrophe in Hawaii...?"

The apostrophe is to show a "hiccup" in the native pronunciation of Hawaiian words. The word isn't pronounced Hah-why-yeeee—the last syllable is more explosive, pronounced like Hah-wha-IH!. Those corrective changes were made sometime in the 80s.

Off Lanikai Beach is "Rabbit Island". It now has a different, native, name. (I grew up in the Territory of Hawaii). :)

I suspect that al Qaida is spelled al Qaeda by the Brits to compensate for one of those "hiccup-apostrophes" that should appear—as al Qa'da.

20 posted on 11/17/2008 3:00:01 AM PST by Does so (Schumer, with IndyMac, precipitated bank failures BEFORE the 2008 election.)
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To: PosterQue

“..why does he stick an apostrophe in Hawaii?”

Because using the glottal stop here is the correct spelling.


39 posted on 11/17/2008 8:32:23 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (We have elected a man ... who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen (Dollard post))
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