Always been, actually.
Oh. I guess my racist white teachers were wrong about it being Hawaii, then.
Anyway, looks like a nice place for an apostrophe. Cool, isn't it, since we're all so used to extraneous apostrophes, this fad of muslimizing w'ords gives us a reason t'o.
So, is Hawai'i a contraction? Or is the apostrophe "i" supposed to show possession of some sort?