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Help[Facts] Re: Maygen
in reply to a message by Amphelise
for me "Megan" sounds like "Meg"+"gun" so thinking of it like "May"+"gun" is... well.... not the simplest solution... It really sounded like a hybrid name... A simplification of a hybrid name...
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Vowel sounds are often very fluid between regions, and people are also more willing to alter vowel sounds to create slightly different names.
Megan is pronounced MEG-ən in most English-speaking countries, but I had to learn to remember this when I moved to the UK, as in Australia it's pronounced MEE-gən. The alternative spelling Meagan makes NO sense to me when pronounced MEG-ən, but it is pronounced that way.
Maegan and Maygen are just further alterations of the main vowel sound, not different names.
Megan is pronounced MEG-ən in most English-speaking countries, but I had to learn to remember this when I moved to the UK, as in Australia it's pronounced MEE-gən. The alternative spelling Meagan makes NO sense to me when pronounced MEG-ən, but it is pronounced that way.
Maegan and Maygen are just further alterations of the main vowel sound, not different names.
This message was edited 2/23/2013, 1:41 PM
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Megan is MAY-gən in the majority of the US. I did know a MEE-gən, but she was an anomaly and constantly had to correct other people's pronunciation of her name. MEG-ən is not a usual pronunciation, at least in the western US.
So to me, Maygen and Maegan are nothing more than "phonetic spellings" of Megan.
So to me, Maygen and Maegan are nothing more than "phonetic spellings" of Megan.
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I've lived in California my whole life, and MAY-gən is the usual pronunciation here. MEG-ən is hard for me to say because I'm not used to it.
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