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Havaii is one of a half dozen or so variant spellings of Hawaii that can be found across all three points of Polynesia. Havaii or Hawai'i refers to the ancient name for both Ra'iatea and Fakarava, both in French Polynesia. Common to all monarchial systems, island names changed by royal order or common assent, according to historic events.
The word "Hawaii" appears in most English dictionaries, so either spelling can be appropriate. The modern US State is usually just "Hawaii". The ʻokina is often used when talking about the ancient culture, Kingdom of Hawaiʻi , or the island of Hawaiʻi in the body of the article.
In some fonts, the ASCII apostrophe is rendered as a right single quotation mark, which is an even less satisfactory glyph for the ʻokina—essentially a 180° rotation of the correct shape. Many other character sets expanded on the overloaded ASCII apostrophe, providing distinct characters for the left and right single quotation marks.
The people who argue that ONLY the spellings with okinas and kahakos should be used, thinking that Hawaiian spellings are "correct" and English spellings are "incorrect", are lacking in education and understanding on the topic of loanwords. They seem to think that only one spelling is correct, and all other spellings are incorrect.
Abstain/Comment Change to strong oppose I will comment on the current situation in Hawaii first. Most of the people in Hawaii (in Oahu to be specific) don't have an opinion or don't really care about the usage of the diacritics primarily because they haven't learned Hawaiian (this can be seen with pronunciations such as Hah-nah-loo-loo instead ...
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Cravalho learned to make leis from her mom, who used to work at a lei stand on Hawaii Island. "People think of lei as a string of orchids or plumeria but it gets so much more intricate than that ...
But you're not one of those obnoxious people. So to speak, dress and drive like a local (or at least a traveler with dignity), avoid these sure signs you're a tourist in Hawaii.