Among the variant spellings she has found – and most of which I myself have probably used over the years – are Khannukah, Channuka, Channukah, Chanuka, Chanuko, Hannukah, Hanukah, as well as my version here, Hanukah with one ‘n’.
As Gloria Sosin points out, the double ‘n’, which is popular in so many of the English versions of the name, has no rational basis, since Hebrew does not use double letters (unless there is a vowel between them).
It seems there is no aspect of the Jewish story which does not have a world of exploration and explanation.
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