On 6/8/2013 2:44 PM, casa bona wrote:
> On 6/8/2013 12:30 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 06/06/2013 1:51 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
>>
>>> The word, which originates from Hebrew and not German, ends with a
>>> silent consonant that, when sounded in other instances, is pronounced
>>> like an "h." Many (most, actually) Hebrew words have a 3-letter
>>> "shoresh" or root, and from that root, various nouns and verbs and
>>> whatever else associated with it are created. This goes for nouns and
>>> verbs, not proper names, nor conjunctions and the like.
>>>
>>> Hanukah is another such word Americans might know - it ends in the same
>>> silent-in-this-case consonant.
>>>
>>
>>
>> If it were in a spelling bee would it be Chanukah, Hanukkah or Hannuka?
>>
> Merriam Webster has it as #2 - Hanukka.
>
> But they use the others as variants.
>
> Odd that they list the first known use to 1843.
>
>
Was Chanukah not introduced as a possible Jewish alternative for Christmas?

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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