Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at hawai'i.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Hawai'i.
Examples
-
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).
Hawaii Reporter 2009
-
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).
Hawaii Reporter 2009
-
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).
Hawaii Reporter 2009
-
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).
Hawaii Reporter 2009
-
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?).
Happy Leftover Day 2009
-
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.
-
"For me, this bill represents equal rights for all the people of Hawai'i."
-
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. 2010
-
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.
-
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.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word Hawai'i
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?
September 4, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word Hawai'i
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?
April 13, 2012
pterodactyl commented on the word Hawai'i
Good point. Yeah, that would probably explain the spelling. But it wouldn't explain the pronunciation. Why don't we pronounce the glottal stop?
April 14, 2012