Other Ways To Spell Hanukkah

But times are changing even in the way the jewish holiday of lights is celebrated and understood and the hanukkah spelling has gone mainstream.

Other ways to spell hanukkah. How do you spell that in english. Other hanukkah traditions include eating potato pancakes called latkes and jelly donuts. At lila s pre school hanukkah party there were three different spellings within 10 feet of one another.

So does this mean we can spell hanukkah however we please. Why there are so many ways to spell hanukkah english is a language notorious for its strange spellings and its speakers are more willing to tolerate aberrations than are speakers of other languages. It is read as chanukah but some people cannot properly pronounce the ch sound and say hanukkah.

The term has over 26 7. Kippah kippa kipa or kipah. So if you like to slightly buck the trend and go.

The most common in english are hanukkah. It s the most common spelling nowadays possibly due to the fact that it looks exactly how it sounds in english. In the interest of ending the ridiculousness of the dozens of spellings i m going forward.

After all with so many competing approaches to transliteration and so many variants in use it would be impossible to select a definitively correct spelling. Hanukkah is observed by lighting candles on a nine branched candelabra called a menorah over eight nights. If you use hanukkah then you re definitely in the majority.

This is because of the hebrew translation of the word so it can be spelled many different ways as the sound of the word starts with ch so many feel it is spelled as chanukah while others prefer starting it with ha and saying hanukkah. A menorah made up of various hashtags and references to social media. Matzoh matzo or matzah.