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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
At Jon and eschwartz,
Why two different spellings of the Jewish holiday that I can't spell?
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English has no concept of the guttural "ch".
Hebrew, Aramaic, German, and apparently Scottish English ("loch"?) do.
Google says it is the
voiceless velar fricative.
Sheer force of habit, maybe, as I usually speak Yinglish, or rather, Yeshivish.
The word "Hanukkah" is an anglicized form of "Chanukah", for pandering to people who don't have those gutturals; it stops them from doing amusing things with "k"s.
