Match Day 17

This match day pulled together a wide range of knowledge: the structure of the Hawaiian alphabet, a live unfolding constitutional crisis in Venezuela, early‑2000s diet culture, classic TV history, camera technology, and contemporary film casting. The ʻokina question pushes you into phonetics and indigenous language preservation—Hawaiian officially treats the glottal stop as a full consonant and one of 13 letters in its modern alphabet, which is why you see it in spellings like Hawaiʻi and Oʻahu. ...

Podcast Script Welcome back to the LL Study Guide daily review. I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re walking through Match Day 17 from season 107. We’ve got a really nice mix: Hawaiian language, breaking political news, early‑2000s diet culture, classic TV, camera history, and a very busy Guatemalan movie star. As always, if you want the full write‑ups, timelines, and links, you can check the study notes on our website at llstudyguide.com. What we’ll do here is hit the key facts, then give you a couple of patterns so you can recognize similar clues next time. ...