Showing posts with label Ruvik Rosenthal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruvik Rosenthal. Show all posts

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Names

Ruvik Rosenthal is the William Safire of Maariv newspaper. Words, their origins, phrases, their meaning and other language oddities.

Recently he's gone into female names.

I made my own contribution about the name Aya which can be understood as an abbreviation for Eretz Yisrael Hasheleima - איה - The Integral Land of Israel.

Here's how it appeared:-