Saturday, December 01, 2007

Dreidel, Draydel, Draidal

There's a pretty good reason that when you search anything Jewish on Google you have to do about 6 searches--phonetically speaking, you could spell every Hebrew word a million ways--and no way is wrong.

But its a constant point of discussion. And as we get into the Hannukah spirit, I'm facing a lot of confused questions. Seriously, Chanukah, Hanuka, Hanukkah... Phonetically, with accents, they all sound different.

So, tonight, we passed a sign for Donuts and Draydals--a breakfast to celebrate Channukah in 2 weeks. A professional sign. But I've never, ever seen it spelled that way.

Yet... its right.

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