DEAR ABBY: Please help correct a holiday misnomer that seems to be growing more entrenched each year. The reindeer in Clement Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" is DONDER, not Donner! The name continues to be misspoken in TV commercials, so I'm asking your help. Suggestion: Tell your readers to find a copy and read it to their kids or grandkids. -- DONDER FAN IN VALLEY SPRINGS, CALIF.
DEAR DONDER FAN: That's an excellent suggestion. I'm in favor of any opportunity parents and grandparents can create to read to children. Not only is it an enjoyable bonding experience, it gives children an incentive to learn to read for themselves.
P.S. In case any of you don't remember the names of the rest of Santa's reindeer, they are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, DONDER and Blitzen. (Rudolph was added later.)