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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
the entire island chain being named Hawai'i (ok, so I'm exaggerating...)
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You're not exagerating much Grace, It may not be named Hawai`i but is is named the Hawai`ian Archipelago.
Notice the apostrophe in Hawai`i is backwards, that is actually a letter in the Hawaiian language called the ʻ
`okina sometimes called the "glottal stop" and is pronounce as a catching of the breath. That is how some Hawai`ian words can have no consonants. For instance the town I live in is named Aiea or `Aiea. The `okina serves as the consonant.