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Last post 12-26-2008 5:29 PM by karenteacher. 1 replies.
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  • 12-26-2008 7:47 AM

    Who taught me to spell?

    I want to apologize for misspelling Chanukah in my earlier post. Hope I didn't offend anyone. Even when being kind one must be diligent.

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  • 12-26-2008 5:29 PM In reply to

    Re: Who taught me to spell?

    4givennotperfect:

    I want to apologize for misspelling Chanukah in my earlier post. Hope I didn't offend anyone. Even when being kind one must be diligent.

    Don't worry about it.  There's not one, single, absolutely correct way to spell Chanukah - which in Hebrew is spelled חנוכה (assuming that shows up right) - (or Hannukah, or Chanuka, or Hanuka.... you get the idea) - at least not in English. Hebrew uses a different alphabet, so all words written in English have to be transliterated - spelled as closely as possible to the actual pronunciation.  The first sound of Chanukah is a Germanic "ch", with a gutteral sound to it (almost like you're going to spit) that doesn't exist in English - and since it doesn't exist in English, the letter(s) to spell it don't really exist either.

    But thanks anyway!

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