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I know that we’ve just passed Purim and are nowhere near the season of Hanukkah, but trust me, this is a perfectly good time to talk about this topic. That’s because this article isn’t actually Hanukkah-themed at all. Today, we’re going to talk about what I call orthographic domestication: the process by which an orthographic system converts lexical items from another system by making them fit cleanly within its own norms. In my freshman year at Lawrence, I had a few interactions with former Jewish Studies professor Elliot Ratzman. One time we were eating lunch and talking about Jewish myst