Are you sending out holiday cards this year? I am but unfortunately I haven’t gotten to them out yet. I am kind of wondering if it is a dying art in this age of Facebook and Twitter. Personally I love to get good ole fashion snail mail. So if you are writing out cards — especially to someone that is Jewish — how do you write Hanukkah? Chanukah? Channukkah? Artist friend Dora Ficher mentioned that there are 16 ways to spell Hanukkah. I thought it would be neat to make a little sketch with all the variations and quickly ran into trouble with duplicates. After tossing a few sketches into the recycling bin, I set off to Google and came back with this handy link. What cracks me up is it says “16 Ways to Spell Hanukkah,” but then it lists 18! I have a feeling there are probably even more spellings if you get a little more inventive. I think my new favorite way to spell is Xanuka. It looks like some really exotic holiday!
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I feel much better, thought it was my spelling and began imagining each time I looked up Hanukkah that it was different depending on the source….try driedel that also comes in many spellings
I’m sure when I was younger “Ch” was the common first letters