Re: Have Yourself a Merry Saturnalia....

On 14 Dec, Douglas Koller wrote:

>I was belting out the Yuletide platitudes in French and Spanish one class
>(our winter break starts Friday), and was suddenly at a loss as to how to
>say "Hanukkah". Couldn't find it in any French dictionary I had at school.
>The Spanish teacher is equally stumped. Granted it's probably something
>clever like "Hanukkah", but do Spaniards throw a "j" or an "x" up front?
>And, most simply, how do French and Spanish Jews wish each other a "Happy
>Hanukkah".

    Today I asked a Spanish (Argentinian) speaker at work
how they say it and I was informed (I had her write it out
for me as well as pronounce it for me) that they say:

Feliz Januca!  (= Happy Hanukkah).
    or sometimes they might say
Feliz "Fiesta de las Luminarias"!  (= Happy Holiday of Lights).

   (The French-speaker I work with wasn't at work today,
so I have no information from that lang.)

Dan Sulani

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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.

A word is an awesome thing.