Diacritics on Jeopardy

[Barbara Need]

Last night's Final Jeopardy question had to do with the 50 States and
asked which state name, when spelled officially, had a diacritic in
it. The answer was Hawai'i, identifying the (I believe Alex said
"mark") apostrophe between the final two vowels as a diacritic. That
seemed wrong to me, since it represents, on its own, a glottal stop.
Thoughts?

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

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