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I knew a Megan who pronounced her name MEE-gan. I personally prefer MAY-gan and MEG-an.

I suspect you will get some different responses once the Australians who participate on this board find the thread.

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"Meegan" is evidently the way that Megan is pronounced by the huge majority of Australians. I suspect that Australian Megans who move to the USA are often tempted to respell it as Meegan to get people to pronounce it the way they prefer.

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And in Australia they probably think the way most Americans pronounce Megan is "weird". :)

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Well it does get the pronunciation across, but I still don't care for it. Dislike the sound of -eagan -egan names

I've heard the pronunciation MEE-gan for Megan before (like Anne of Green Gables actress Megan Follows), so they probably just spelled it that way to make sure it was pronounced the way they wanted.

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I like it pronounced that way, but I like just regular Megan better.

I've heard Megan pronounced that way before. I don't like Megan to begin with and this pronunication just makes it worse.

I don't like it. It sounds like "meager", which is not a word I would want my name to remind anyone of.

It's probably just a mispelling of Meagan, which is a variant of Megan for which the pronunciation varies.

I've seen that around here, I think it's atrocious. I've never liked the name Megan, blunt sounds like mee-gan, or double e's.

This message was edited 7/30/2008, 11:18 AM