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== [[The Fair Folk|Fairy/Phaery/Faerie]] ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' lampshades it:▼
{{quote|'''Tea:''' Fairies? Faeries? Phayrighies? It doesn't matter; they all mean the same thing. }}▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater''.▼
* ''[[The Faerie Wars Chronicles]]'' by James Herbert Brennan is odd in that it uses two spellings ("fairy" and "faerie") depending on who is saying the term, most probably to distinguish between the "real" thing and the more mainstream usage.
** Also that Faerie is simply a humanoid race—fairy is the word confused humans have for them when they come into our world and grow wings as a result of the transportation (we do the same when we transport there).
** Along with "faerie," there are uses of both "Hael/Hell" and "Haven/Heaven" at various points in the series. Almost always, the Phantasy Spelling is used by faeries and the normal spelling is used by human characters, although Mr. Fogarty switches over to the faerie spellings after moving to the Faerie Realm.
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** There's at least one of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s "Puck of Pook's Hill" stories, set in Sussex, where a farmer uses "Pharisees" in this sense.
* Also lampshaded in [[Kim Newman]]'s [[Diogenes Club]] story "The Gypsies in the Wood", featuring a series of children's stories about faeries (including ''The Aerie Faerie Annual''). One character rhetorically asks what's wrong with the word "fairy".
* Averted in ''[[Goblin Moon]]'' (the first volume of Teresa Edgerton's ''Mask and Dagger'' series), where "fairy" is the name of the race, while "Fae" and "Farisee" are apparently two different ''nationalities'' within that race. (The Biblical overtones of the latter may be intentional, as some of [[Teresa Edgerton]]'s nonhuman cultures are analogs to real-world human cultures.)
* In ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'', they are commonly refferd to as the fey, one on it's own is a faery. The world is faerie.
▲* Extremely common in general in fantasy stories that mention fairies. They will usually be spelled Faerie or Faery.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
▲* ''Shelley Duvall's [[Faerie Tale Theater]]''.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
▲* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' lampshades it:
▲{{quote|'''Tea:''' Fairies? Faeries? Phayrighies? It doesn't matter; they all mean the same thing. }}
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', it's faeries.
* Both ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming]]'' and [[Changeling: The Lost]] go for "faerie" or "fae." In ''Lost'', it's divided up amongst "faerie/fae," lowercase (to refer to all things that draw power from the Wyrd), "Faerie," uppercase (to refer to [[Eldritch Location|Arcadia]]) and "the True Fae" (to refer to [[The Fair Folk|the Gentry]]).
== Fantasy/Phantasy ==
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