At the end of Charlotte's Web, three of Charlotte's daughters decide to stay in the barn with Wilbur. E. B. White names them Joy, Aranea, and Nellie. Their names are mentioned three times, always in that order.
I seem to be the only person on the internet (or anywhere else, including The Annotated Charlotte's Web) to posit the theory that White chose those names because their initials spell JAN, in honor of his niece Janice Hart White. As is widely noted, as a child she inspired her uncle to start writing children's books. In Letters of E. B. White, there are three letters that White wrote to his niece, all of which begin "Dear Jan".
Taking the initials of any three first names chosen at random, the odds are exceedingly slim that they would — in the order you chose the names — spell any name or word. That these three ordered initials signify a person very close to E. B. White, using the pet name with which he addressed her, makes coincidence a near impossibility.
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