Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20190325011104

It's actually a rather nuanced issue, and I certainly did not make it up. I was born in Hawaiʻi and spent a great deal of time there in my youth, though I haven't left North America since I was 15. While using Hawaiian spellings with appropriate ʻokina and kahakō for terms and placenames of Hawaiian origin has an air of more correct usage (Hawaiʻi, aliʻi, pāhoehoe, etc.), and words like "Hawaiʻi" have at least two prominent pronunciations (the native-influenced "huh-VY-ʻee" vs. the more anglicized "huh-WY-yee"), it should be noted that the word "Hawaiian" is not a direct loan from the Hawaiian language, but an inflected English word with a stem of filtered Hawaiian origin. Indeed, the usage of ʻokina in such words is sometimes proscribed, and I've personally never heard anyone pronounce the word "Hawaiian" with a V or ʻokina even if they otherwise pronounce "Hawaiʻi" with both. Even dictionary.com recognizes "Hawaiʻi" spelt in English both with and without the ʻokina and pronounced with either W or V, but only recognizes "Hawaiian" without the ʻokina and only pronounced with W. 