The symbol in many Hawaiʻian words that looks sort of like an apostrophe is actually an ʻokina. It is considered to be a consonant letter, and represents the phonetic glottal stop, used in many Polynesian languages. With succession in 2017, the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi officially reclaimed the correct spelling of words of Hawaiʻian origin. A quick way to annoy many kamaʻaina (see below), is to misspell or mispronounce such words. Hawaiʻi for example, is pronounced ha-VEYE-ee, with a noticeable glottal stop before the final syllable.