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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.
Orthography refers to the correct spelling of a language. [1] The Hawaiian language uses two special diacritic marks in its orthography not used in English. The kahakō is the Hawaiian term for the macron, a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. It is written as a raised horizontal line ...
Where the English and Hawaiian names are the same or very nearly the same, but the English and Hawaiian spellings differ, use the English spelling. Example 1: Hawaii, not Hawaiʻi. Example 2: Lihue, not Līhuʻe. Where the English and Irish names are different, and the English name remains the predominant usage in English, use the English name.
Article XV, Section 1 of the Constitution uses The State of Hawaii. [26] Diacritics were not used because the document, drafted in 1949, [27] predates the use of the ʻokina ʻ and the kahakō in modern Hawaiian orthography. The exact spelling of the state's name in the Hawaiian language is Hawaiʻi.
Oppose Although the real name of Hawaii is spelled Hawai'i, most modern citizens spell it that way, so it will be easier for them to search for it if they type it in the Wikipedia search box. Complex-Algorithm 22:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC) Comment - er, isn't an encyclopedia in the business of educating people? And as for force, as far as I ...
The following is a list of the islands in Hawaii.The state of Hawaii, consisting of the Hawaiian Islands, has the fourth-longest ocean coastline of the 50 states (after Alaska, Florida, and California) at 750 miles (1,210 km).
Horrifying video captured a plane crashing into a building in Hawaii during a training flight — with a pilot telling the control tower: “We’re out of control here.” The two people on board ...
Section 1: "Geography", subsection 1.1: "Location, topography, and geology" states that "Hawaii is the only state of the United States that... is located entirely within the tropics." In the "State of Hawaii" section of quick facts on the right at the top, in the "area" section, it states that the range of latitude for Hawaii is "18° 55′ N ...