I hated all holidays, they were all sad for me. But this year my friend wanted to change that for me so we made a weird and wonderful mix of Christmas and Hanukkah. It was two days long and full of Christmukkah miracles and food and silly music, we made paper decorations and we burnt a round of candles on the menorah for every bottle of wine we finished. I bet the neighbors thought we'd gone nuts. So that's my favorite holiday, whatever it was. We will do it again. It was my first really happy holiday.

How do you pronounce "species?" Speeshees or speesees or something else?