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Subject:        Hawai'ian placenames
Date:   Mon, 19 May 2008 11:32:58 -0500
From:   Becky Lowery <[log in to unmask]>
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I received this question from another librarian  and her request was from the American Name Society.  Does anyone know the answer to the question about the appropriate typographic character used for glottal stops?  Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Becky Lowery
UIC Maps Library

>Subject: Hawai'ian placenames

I'm working on a map of O'ahu and trying to determine which
typographic character is proper to use for the glottal stop:
the opening single quote, the closing single quote/apostrophe, or the prime mark?

Any advice or pointers?  Also, any pitfalls that a mainlander should
watch out for, such as (purely as an example) eliminating it in
adjectival forms (like the subject line of this email) or some such?
>

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Rebecca Lowery
Maps and Data Services Librarian (MC-234)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL   60680

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