Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Kaanapali is the correct spelling

I'm posting a bunch of pictures of Kaanapali Beach to the web on hawaii-lisa.com and got to thinking about Kaanapali. The most popular misspelling of this word I have seen is Kanapali - which makes sense - lots of people have problems with that double a. If you wanted to be completely correct you would place an okina between the two a's like this: Ka'anapali. Searching with and without the okina on Google does change your results though - I would probably go without the okina. Some other incorrect spellings are kana pali kaana pali kanapoli kanapale kaanapale.

Kaanapali is pronounced kah ah nah pah lee and means rolling cliffs.

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