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Anglicization from Hebrew
How should one transliterate the well-known Jewish Holiday that usually takes place in December (or late November)?
Hannukah
or
Chanukah
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Is there a word to describe when a person with a non-English name adopts an English name, because it happens to sound very much like her real name?
This is especially common with the Chinese in America or Hong Kong.
Example 1: A Chinese person called Lu Xi comes to America and adopts the name Lucy.
Example 2: Or those named Mohammed from the ...