Note 47 — Chapter XX · OF THE PREPOSITIONS, ADVERBS, AND CONJUNCTIONS.
Reading edition
Some foreigners, we observe, omit the i after kihai, when it immediately follows it. That this error, however, arises from the I being blended into the ai of kihai in the pronunciation is clear from its being distinctly heard when a word intervenes to prevent elision, as in the following example:—kihai ahau i pai.