I suppose you understand that there is no objective rule to transliterate 'al-manakh' into IE dialects, so I must guess you are joking. Benjamin Franklin, you

I suppose you understand that there is no objective rule to transliterate 'al-manakh' into IE dialects, so I must guess you are joking. Benjamin Franklin, you know: Founding Father [of the USA], signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution; first postmaster general of the USA; first US ambassador to France; secretary and president of the American Philosophical Society; inventor of the lightning rod and bifocal eyeglasses; founder of the Library Company and the University of Pennsylvania... Polymath, inspirational figure... And surely you know that jokes in these pages make sense only if they fulfill the purpose HN has.