Thursday, November 11, 2010

Hanukkah, Chanukah or Hanukah?

When the festive Jewish holiday of candles and latkes is transliterated from Hebrew or Yiddish it gets spelled many ways, Hanukkah or Chanukah or Hanukah and then some. However, by far the most popular usage is Hanukkah. In ranking popularity according to Google hits, Hanukkah had 12,700,000 hits, compared to 2,440,000 for Chanukah and 739,000 for Hanukah.

Marvin the Maven

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