According to Evite, a leading digital invitation and social event planning brand, with no one, right way to spell the Hebrew word for the Festival of Lights, it begs the question: what is the most popular way to spell Hanukkah?
Culled from folks who sent Hanukkah-related invitations on Evite in 2011, here are the
Top 8 Ways to Spell (C)Hanuk(k)a(h)
- HANUKKA 23%
- HANUKKAH 22%
- HANUKA 13%
- HANUKAH 12%
- CHANUKA 11%
- CHANUKAH 10%
- HANNUKA 5%
- HANNUKAH 4%
Top
evite? nah, use googlefight.com – hanukkah is so far ahead…. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=hanukka&word2=hanukkah#
I just added this discussion to the entry for Hanukkah in the Jewish English Lexicon:
http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-english-lexicon/words/219
Still go for Chanukah in all my written mail, cards, etc
Historically and globally, it seems there are different favorites (Hanukkah and Chanukah): http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hanukka%2CHanukkah%2CHanuka%2CHanukah%2CChanuka%2CChanukah%2CHannuka%2CHannukah&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15