At my summer camp (a Jewish camp with rather strong Zionist leanings), just about every bunk would have at least one Ari or Jordana. WAY too many parents taking naming inspiration from Exodus.

All those boys named Ari did make it a bit easier when, around sixth grade or so, it became the thing to do to either crochet a yarmulke or weave a bracelet for the boy you liked with his name in it, and it's much easier to figure out how to crochet Ari than Jonathan or something like that.

Tom Scola, how are you so awesome?

(What? Really, it should be the standard Scola greeting.)

Dude, that *IS* the standard Scola greeting.

Despite the fact that my own name has a fairly useless H in the middle

You have an H????? I've been misspelling your name for years. Total apologies. Granted, I call you Fay half the time in real life too. Which I think still does not have an H. FaHy?

Ironically, it's actually Stephenie.

Heh. See, I am completely hypocritical.

You have an H

Yes indeed - I think Nicholas is a more common spelling than Nicolas, so it's not completely bonkers that the female version has an H, but it's fairly pointless.

PC - yes, Leverage is much fun!

Well it's not pointless, I am going to go fix my address book now. Think of it as ... no, I can't think of a good reason beyond it's your name and I'd like to spell it correctly.

Edit: HA! I had you as Nic. It was diminutized but it wasn't strictly misspelled.

Wouldn't it be Fhay?

Fyay.

Ffay

Ffhaye.

...fuck, maybe I should just change my name to Morgana Le after all.

Phey!

From our local police blotter:

6:17 p.m., theft of garbage in the 200 block of Willow Street.

Oh, Suzi. So much ~ma for your mom and you.

Vibing hard and sending lots of ~ma to you and your Mom, Suzi.