I think it is one of those words that - because it didn't originate with the Western alphabet - can be spelled so many ways and it just depends what's "fashionable" at the time. Like, I never heard of spelling it with a C until I was in late high school, always started with an H before that.
I saw that too. Presumably the latter is AP style while the former is what the sign said, hence the need to explain why the article spells it differently from the headline.
My local free morning paper reran that story with a typo: Canukah, which I believe is a minor German holiday celebrating a Michael Karoli guitar solo that lasted 8 days in 1972.
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Firefox is very unhappy about something in the embedded video. Seems OK in Internet Explorer though.
Posted by: mypalmike | December 6, 2007 2:34 AM
Nice animation! I totally remember those silhouettes from The Electric Company.
Posted by: Deborah | December 6, 2007 8:20 AM
You really are my pal, mike. Fixed the problem (which was a typo in the link before the video, not the video itself).
Posted by: radosh | December 6, 2007 9:39 AM
Ah, so cute.
I think it is one of those words that - because it didn't originate with the Western alphabet - can be spelled so many ways and it just depends what's "fashionable" at the time. Like, I never heard of spelling it with a C until I was in late high school, always started with an H before that.
Posted by: SouthernBelle | December 6, 2007 11:19 AM
I always went with Chaka-Khan. "All that without a [expletive deleted] piece of cardboard."
Posted by: Michael | December 6, 2007 3:34 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22147407/
combining two of your posts.
Note that they say "Chanukah - an alternate spelling for Hanukkah -"
Posted by: JohnnyB | December 7, 2007 12:10 PM
I saw that too. Presumably the latter is AP style while the former is what the sign said, hence the need to explain why the article spells it differently from the headline.
Posted by: radosh | December 7, 2007 12:24 PM
More Hanukkah (sometimes called Chanukah) song action here:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1792589
Posted by: anno-nymous | December 7, 2007 3:59 PM
My local free morning paper reran that story with a typo: Canukah, which I believe is a minor German holiday celebrating a Michael Karoli guitar solo that lasted 8 days in 1972.
Posted by: TG Gibbon | December 10, 2007 7:22 AM
Sorry, reran the story about the ham.
Posted by: TG Gibbon | December 10, 2007 7:22 AM