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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9152090" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="maitreyi-ramakrishnan">Maitreyi Ramakrishnan</keyword> plays protagonist Devi Vishwakumar on the <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> series "<keyword id="6430721" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="never-have-i-ever">Never Have I Ever</keyword>."</li><li>On Thursday, she tweeted about how people often pronounce her name wrong.</li><li>She clarified the correct pronunciation is "My-tray-yee Ra-ma-krish-nin."</li></ul><p>Maitreyi Ramakrishnan stars in the Netflix hit series "Never Have I Ever," which audiences have been bingeing ever since the second season dropped on July 15.</p><p>In the show, Ramakrishnan plays a teenager named Devi Vishwakumar who navigates her life at school, relationships with two boys, and her traditional Indian family, as she processes the trauma of her father's death.</p><p>On Thursday, Ramakrishnan, who is 19, tweeted a voice note about how to correctly pronounce her name, as people had been getting it wrong her whole life.</p><p>"Names are so important, and I find that it's a big part of your identity - it personally is for me, I love my name so, so much," she said.</p><p>She said that when she was younger, she would tell people they could mispronounce her name because she believed she was inconveniencing them. But she now insists people get it right, both when meeting new people and when being interviewed.</p><p>"Like this is my name, I'm sorry but I get to call the shots here," she said. "There is one answer, and that answer is my own. There is no discussion."</p><p>Ramakrishnan said nobody wants their name to be "butchered," but sometimes we just accept it and that "really, really sucks."</p><p>"I hope you guys don't have to go through that too often," she said.</p><p>Ramakrishnan said she left the pronunciation to the end of the voice memo so people had to listen through the whole thing. She clarified that the correct pronunciation is "My-tray-yee Ra-ma-krish-nin."</p><p>"That's how I like it," she said. "I'm not expecting people to switch up their accents on me, just asking for basic respect."</p><p>In follow-up tweets, Ramakrishnan said before"Never Have I Ever" came out, many people used to assume she would adjust her name's pronunciation to make it easier.</p><p>"Lets make sure we remember that names have power. pronounce peoples names the way they want it to be pronounced and put in the effort," she added with a loving emoji. "So hey! My name is Maitreyi /my-tray-yee/"</p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Hallmark's new <keyword id="4008238" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hanukkah">Hanukkah</keyword> movie "Love, Lights, Hanukkah!" premieres on December 12 at 8 p.m. EST.</li><li>The film stars Mia Kirshner as Christina, a restaurant owner who discovers she's Jewish through a DNA ancestry test and celebrates Hanukkah with her newfound family.</li><li>It has all the trimmings of a cheesy Hallmark <keyword id="6867532" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="holiday-movie">holiday movie</keyword>, but centers Hanukkah traditions and their symbolism, as well as the Jewish characters who celebrate them.</li></ul><p>Last year, for the first time, Hallmark included Jewish characters and Hanukkah storylines in two movies: <a href="https://www.insider.com/hallmark-movies-jewish-holiday-date-double-holiday-hanukkah-review-2019-12">"Holiday Date" and "Double Holiday."</a> While both were well-intentioned attempts at inclusion, they ultimately felt more like <keyword id="506544" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Christmas-Movies">Christmas movies</keyword> with poorly written Jewish characters who happened to mention Hanukkah a few times.</p><p>This year's effort entitled "Love, Lights, Hanukkah!" is different. Is it cheesy? Sure. It's a Hallmark holiday movie, after all. But it also centers Hanukkah traditions and their symbolism, as well as the Jewish characters who celebrate them.</p><h2>Mia Kirshner stars as Christina, a restaurant owner who discovers her Jewish ancestry and connects with her newfound Jewish family over Hanukkah</h2><div type="image" title="love lights hanukkah" height="500" width="752" msid="79688090" hostid="261"></div><p>An Italian restaurant owner still reeling from the loss of her adoptive mother and a broken engagement, Christina takes a DNA test to learn more about her background. She finds out she has Eastern European Jewish ancestry and that some close relatives, the Bermans, live nearby. </p><p>It turns out that they're more closely related than she thought when Ruth Berman reveals she is Christina's biological mother. Both drawn to Ruth and desperate to hold onto the memory of her mother, Christina navigates a new family and a new holiday while honoring the Christmas traditions she was raised with.</p><p>There's also the matter of David (played by Ben Savage), a restaurant critic who gave Christina's lasagna a less-than-enthusiastic <keyword id="45374" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Review">review</keyword> but is a fixture at the Bermans' Hanukkah gatherings as a family friend. You can probably guess how that one ends. Their bland romance is the film's weakest point - the warm, lively Bermans make for a far more compelling storyline.</p><h2>Aside from a few gratuitous bagels and lox references and bungled Hebrew pronounciations, the Jewish aspects of the film feel authentic</h2><div type="image" title="love lights hanukkah" height="500" width="750" msid="79688091" hostid="261"></div><p>Interfaith identities can feel particularly complex during the winter holiday season with several distinct, widely celebrated religious holidays in close proximity, but the film treats Hanukkah as more than just a foil to Christmas.</p><p>The Bermans take the time to educate Christina, and thereby the audience, about the origins of Hanukkah, lighting a menorah, preparing latkes, and playing dreidel. They ask David when he's going to settle down and tell Christina what a cute couple they'd make, an accurate portrayal of a Jewish family if I've ever seen one. And the miraculous nature of the holiday is an overarching theme of the film. In one scene, as Ruth shows Christina her dreidel collection, she gazes lovingly at her long-lost daughter and explains that the letters on each of a dreidel's sides stand for "a great miracle happened there."</p><p>The way Christina balances Christmas and Hanukkah will also feel familiar to the <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/2016/10/26/one-in-five-u-s-adults-were-raised-in-interfaith-homes/">one in five US adults who have been raised in interfaith homes</a>. She prepares traditional Jewish foods in a Santa apron, hosts the Bermans for Hanukkah with decorative elves lighting the path to her door, and invites them to her restaurant's Christmas dinner to join in her late mother's beloved tradition.</p><h2>In a standout scene, David and the Bermans take Christina to a public menorah lighting ceremony - it's the kind of magical holiday moment Hallmark is known for</h2><div type="image" title="love lights hanukkah" height="1412" width="2358" msid="79688092" hostid="261"></div><p>Publicizing the miracle of Hanukkah is an important tradition with origins in the Talmud. Many organizations hold communal menorah lightings in cities around the world, but this ritual is rarely represented in Hanukkah stories onscreen since Christmas symbols are ubiquitous in public spaces.</p><p>With a crowd of Jews wearing various yarmulke styles, Becky Berman wishing Christina a "chag sameach" with a proper gutteral "ch" sound, and Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson's gorgeous rendition of "Maoz Tzur" playing in the background, it feels like, well, a scene out of a Hallmark movie.</p><p>Those seeking a purely Hanukkah-focused film with little mention of Christmas won't find that here. But for those open to a movie that places Hanukkah at the center of a story about family, hope, and miracles, "Love, Lights, Hanukkah!" might just be the applesauce to your latke.</p><p>Watch the trailer for "Love, Lights, Hanukkah!" below:</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/white-house-hanukkah-party-history-how-it-began">The White House didn't always celebrate Hanukkah - here's how the tradition began</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/hanukkah-facts-history-jewish-holiday">10 surprising facts you didn't know about Hanukkah</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/what-is-hanukkah-2017-12">13 reasons everyone should be sad they don't celebrate Hanukkah</a></li></ul>

Hallmark's 'Love, Lights, Hanukkah!' is the cheesy interfaith holiday movie we've been waiting for

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="jmawork/flickr" title_caption="Life doesn't come with spell-check." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5576f0106bb3f79029e55aea-960/typos-1.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></div><p></p></div></div></p><p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">definitely</strong></p><p>Just as there is no crying in baseball, there is no A in "definitely." But <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5538890/Definitely-is-most-commonly-misspelt-word.html">according to a survey</a> from OnePoll, it's the most commonly misspelled word in English. Remembering that the root is "finite" helps. If etymology doesn't work, webcomic "The Oatmeal" offers <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling">a handy phrase</a> to help you remember.</p><p><strong>restaurateur</strong></p><p>Unless you live a very specific kind of life, it's likely you're not regularly writing about restaurateurs. When and if you are, take note: The correct spelling has no N. "Restaurant" has an N. "Restaurateur" does not.</p><p><strong>misspell</strong></p><p>There is particular shame in misspelling "misspell," so avoid it. The correct spelling has two S's, because, as "Barron's Pocket Guide to Correct English" <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_XViUnB0UdcC&amp;lpg=PA54&amp;ots=A4SYRqiSgl&amp;pg=PA54#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">explains</a>, "prefixes are kept intact even when their final letter is the same as the first letter in the base word."</p><p><strong>necessary </strong></p><p>Another one from <a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings">Oxford's top 100 misspellings</a>: "Necessary," which has one C but two S's. "Unnecessary," meanwhile, is frequently misspelled too. Because of the same prefix rule that governs "misspell," it has two N's: one in "un" and the other in "necessary."</p><p><strong>pronunciation</strong></p><p>While it feels like "pronunciation" <em>should</em> contain the word "pronounce," it doesn't. The middle syllable in "pronunciation" is "nun." The middle syllable in "pronounce" is "noun."</p><p><strong>all right</strong></p><p>If something is adequate or satisfactory, it is "all right," two words. As Writer's Digest <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/alright-vs-all-right">gently puts it</a>, "'alright' technically isn't, well, a word."</p><p>One of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Garners-Modern-American-Usage-Garner/dp/0195382757">the world's foremost authorities on the English language, Bryan Garner,</a> says this: <em>"Alright</em> for <em>all right</em> has never been accepted as standard" in American English. "The short version may be gaining a shadowy acceptance in [British English] ... Still, the combined version cannot yet be considered good usage - or even colloquially all right."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="YouTube/Oscars" title_caption="" All="" right="" all="" is="" the="" way="" to="" go.="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/55760f7d6bb3f7d021e8f25e-960/matthew-mcconaughey-oscars-alright-alright-alright-4.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD2cVhC-63I">YouTube/Oscars</a></span></p><p class="caption">"All right, all right, all right" is the way to go.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p><strong>maintenance</strong></p><p>Maintenance does <em>not</em> contain the word "maintain." Instead, the "ai" turns to an E. According to Google Trends, people in Missouri are particularly confused about this - it's the <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-worst-spellers-in-america-live-in-this-state-2015-05-28">most frequently Googled spelling in the state</a>.</p><p><strong>receive</strong></p><p>As with many English spelling rules, "I before E except after C" has plenty of exceptions (and Mental Floss has <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/51635/how-i-e-except-after-c-rule">a guide to them here</a>), but in this case, at least, the saying stands.</p><p><strong>occasion, occasionally</strong></p><p>More than a few Quora users <a href="http://www.quora.com/English-language/What-is-the-most-misspelt-word-in-the-English-language">admitted having trouble</a> with "occasion" and "occasionally," which have double C's but <em>not</em> double S's.</p><p><strong>occurrence</strong></p><p>Yet another frequently confused case of double letters, "occurrence" makes <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5538890/Definitely-is-most-commonly-misspelt-word.html">Britain's list of top misspelled words</a>, thanks to its double C's, double R's, and the ambiguous-sounding vowel in the last syllable. (It's an E.)</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="" Memento="" Newmarket="" Films="" title_caption="" is="" a="" movie="" about="" memory="" not="" moments.="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5577265f6bb3f7dc08e55ae8-960/memento-4.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a><p class="source"><span>"Memento"/Newmarket Films</span></p><p class="caption">"Memento" is a movie about memory, not moments.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p><strong>memento</strong></p><p>"Why would something to remind you of a 'moment' be spelled 'memento'? Well, it is," <a href="http://qr.ae/7101qf">wrote</a> an anonymous Quora user. A more nuanced explanation: "Memento" comes from the same root as "remember."</p><p><strong>privilege</strong></p><p>"According to the pronunciation (not 'pronounciation'!) of this word, that middle vowel could be anything," one anonymous Quora user <a href="http://qr.ae/7101qf">points out</a>. But it isn't. Accordingly, remember: two I's and two E's, in that order.</p><p><strong>schedule</strong></p><p>This one makes the Barron's list because of <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_XViUnB0UdcC&amp;lpg=PA54&amp;ots=A4SYRqiSgl&amp;pg=PA55#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">pronunciation confusion</a>. Although some people <em>say</em> "schedule" as if it were a three-syllable word -<em> sched-u-al</em> - <a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/schedule">it isn't</a>, and it isn't spelled that way.</p><p><strong>Bonus:</strong></p><p><strong>minuscule</strong></p><p>Because it means very small, a lot of people think of "mini" and incorrectly spell this word as "miniscule." "But the word derives from the word <em>minus; </em>it has nothing to do with the prefix <em>mini-,"</em> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Garners-Modern-American-Usage-Garner/dp/0195382757?tag=bisafetynet-20">says Garner</a>.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/items-keep-off-resume-careers-2015-4">5 things you should never put on your résumé</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="duNjBmdDpbHFsqP9jEZSGXMaxI7gJ3wD" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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