The CORRECT spelling for Hawai'i. Not that I take offense to the sans-apostrophe version, I don't include it when I write either. I think it does make people pronounce the name of the state by ignoring the short and almost undistinguishable pause between the last two vowels. It's sounded Hawa- *break* -e (all vowels are short, a as in gaurdian, e as in eat) NOT Hawiee. The added pause overlaps the last a, and should not add to the time it takes to say the word. Both spellings should take up the same amount of time to pronounce.