Re: Have Yourself a Merry Saturnalia....

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:21:02PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote:
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> Eruanno none wrote:
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> > Just to inform you, it ( being the word you are calling Hannukah ( or
> > something close to that )), is wrong.  You spell it:  Chanukah.
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> Not necessarily. For the closest transcription to the Hebrew, yes. But
> Hannukah, Chanukah, Channukah, Hanukkah, Chanukkah, they're all accepted
> spellings.
I visited a college library recently and saw that it had a little display
about the holiday in question. To my dismay, they had spelled it "Chanukiah."
Oh well.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo