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“In Hawai'i, people who want to stop smoking can receive immediate help by calling the Hawai'i Tobacco Quitline at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669).”
“For me, this bill represents equal rights for all the people of Hawai'i.”
“Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Argentina and Australia, and has served as the Springer Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago and the Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai'i.”
“My niece has gone mad for spice cake, so in addition to the Safeway pre-fab punkin pie we had a giant two-layer moist and fluffy cake with yellow-and-orange frosting (that was supposed to be autumnal colors, I think, but she's from Hawai'i; what's she know from falling leaves and their colors?).”
“I must say this is the first vacation I have never wanted to come back from, Hawai'i is drop dead gorgeous and I have been someplaces.”
“Hawai'i will (inevitably, as we pay more for everything out here) have the longest, thus the most expensive to manufacture: the humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa.”
You can keep your Jesus Fish, you can keep your Darwin fish. I want one of these for my car.
“The details of life on Moloka'i came in part from letters and journals in the Hawai'i”
“But Honolulu also presents a very different picture of Hawai'i in those "glamour" days.”
“Like Rachel Kalama in Moloka'i, Jin is a fictional creation, but is inspired by any number of actual women who emigrated to Hawai'i between 1903 and”
“Your protagonist, Jin, is a young Korean woman who comes to Hawai'i as a”
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pterodactyl Good point. Yeah, that would probably explain the spelling. But it wouldn't explain the pronunciation. Why don't we pronounce the glottal stop? Apr 13, 2012
ruzuzu I was just reading about Devils Tower for the o-wyoming list--apparently it's a mapmaking convention to ignore apostrophes (and other punctuation) in names (hence "Devils Tower" instead of "Devil's Tower"). Could that have something to do with it? Apr 13, 2012
pterodactyl The apostrophe, which represents a glottal stop, is often omitted. I've always figured that that's because English speakers don't really have a concept of a glottal stop, so they overlook it and leave it out.
But maybe that's an insufficient explanation. Sure, English doesn't have glottal stops, but English also doesn't have the vowel combination /aɪiː/ ("ai-ee") and yet most Americans don't have any trouble pronouncing /həˈwaɪiː/ ("huh-wai-ee").
If both of these sounds, the glottal stop and the vowel combination, are absent in English, why do English speakers spurn the one and embrace the other? Sep 4, 2010