Diacritics on Jeopardy

[Barbara Need]

And Wiki tells me that, officially (at the federal and state levels),
it is <Hawaii>, without the apostrophe.

New Mexico was my choice.

Barbara

On 12 Feb 2008, at 11:56, Paul Johnston wrote:

> I agree--and it's interesting that another contestant put New Mexico--
> technically right in English, but Spanish Nuevo Mexico would have an
> acute accent on the e in "Mexico".
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> Paul Johnston
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Barbara Need wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Barbara
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>> Barbara Need
>> UChicago
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