I am silent, hear me roar!

Part of my job as Office Manager is to handle employee disputes. Recently we had a dispute between two employees, both female. Ones name ended in "y" and the other in "i". I now have another dispute between two employees, both female. Ones name ended in "y" and the other in "i" (but not the same employees).

I was recently exchanging IMs with a friend about this to which he replied:

Names that end in "i" do not fare well with names that end in "y".

It's like they are fighting over the vowel sound.

But you trump them because you have a name ending in "e" but the "e" is silent.

I have to say, that was one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time.