[Sca-cooks] OT, OOP Gifts at Hanukah

[Lilinah]

Philippa wrote:
>  (Think Billy Crystal...Yiddish (also
>  Hebrew) "A language of choking and spitting."  ) Since there is

Bear in mind, of course, that Yiddish is a form of High German and 
not related to Hebrew.

In some places, Yiddish was written using the Hebrew alef-beth, but 
alphabet does not determine language family. For example, there are 
an awful lot of languages that use the Roman alphabet that are not 
only not related to Latin, but not even Indo-European languages, such 
as Turkish, Indonesian, and Vietnamese, to pick three languages that 
are not related to each other, either.

-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita

who already knew about the "H" or "Ch"
but also wonders about the "N" or "NN"
in that holiday's name