eli
eli
Xanukkah, the one true spelling.Xanukkah becomes a noteworthy transliteration in a scheme where each character in the target language represents a distinct character in the source language. Ch poses a problem if C and H represent unique characters unto themselves. X solves for... eli.li
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jeremycherfas
jeremycherfas

@eli Is that guttural ch represented as a single letter in any other language?

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eli
eli

@jeremycherfas Hebrew and I believe Arabic, but I’m not certain about any others. I’m also not really familiar with any other languages other than Spanish and French, though

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dgold
dgold

@eli IPA agrees! [χanuˈka] in Hebrew, [ˈχanukə] in Yiddish

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