15 Sweet Facts About Kool-Aid
By Alvin Ward
of Mental Floss
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It’s been a staple of American pitchers and cups for nearly 90 years, but you might not know the sugary drink quite as well as you think you do. Here are a few nuggets about its history, alternate uses, and marketing that will make you yell, “Oh yeah!”
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![According to the Oxford English Dictionary, variant spellings of the celebration include: Chanucha, Hanuca, Hanucka, Khanukah, and most every other combination imaginable, with the most common spellings today being Hanukkah and Chanukah. The reason for all the spellings is because Hanukkah isn't a native English word—it's not even from a language that uses the Latin alphabet.When converting between alphabets, there is a choice whether to preserve the pronunciation or the spelling, and sometimes the results don't match [PDF]. In the case of Hanukkah and Chanukah, Hanukkah represents the spelling, while Chanukah more closely represents the original pronunciation, with a Ch like the Scottish pronunciation of loch.](http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBQgxmy.img?h=66&w=88&m=6&q=60&u=t&o=t&l=f "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, variant spellings of the celebration include: Chanucha, ... - iStock.com/Kameleon007")
