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I don't know, but I've emailed one of the secretaries in our office who speaks Hawaiian to ask. I'll let you know what she tells me.
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This is from our secretary who is a graduate of Kamehameha School (a private school that only native Hawaiians can attend that is devoted to preserving Hawaiian culture).
quote:Aloha wau ‘ia ‘oe (this is what I was taught) and yes, there are many other ways people say it.
Most common, they drop the “w” in front of ‘wau’ and just say ‘au…means same thing.
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The W is quite often barely pronounced anyway, and then it is it's usually closer to a 'v' in my experience
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