Actually Mohave is an accepted alternate spelling of the Spanish word Mojave and both are pronounced the same way. (I suspect Mohave is an anglicized spelling of the original Spanish) The different spellings are regional with Mojave being used in California and Mohave next door in Arizona. Since Apple is a California company and their OS versions are named after geographic locations in California, MacOS 10.14 is named "Mojave" with a "J".
My typo was a run on word.
