Message: "May" - Behind the Name

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May

by findthesea

6/20/2012, 4:46 PM

in reply to a message by Lily

I just have a pet peeve about word names being spelled like the word. *shrugs*

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- Lily (Destry) +2

6/20/2012, 4:48 PM

It's not just a word name, Mae is a diminutive of Margaret, Mary and Mabel. Kind of like Eve which is a word but also has a meaning and history.

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- PantheraVirgo (brilliantblue) +1

6/21/2012, 1:16 AM

But if Eve was spelled Eev, it'd (possibly) bug you because it's also a word name and you just violated that wordiness. That's all findthesea is saying.

- Lily (Destry)

6/21/2012, 1:35 AM

No, it wouldn't. I actually know a girl named Yve. When you think about it Brooke, Paige and Skye are all misspelled words and they all look fine to me. Also Mae is, as I said, legit and a diminutive of Margaret with a really long history, so I don't see how it has anything in common with Eev.

I get what she wants to say and it's fine that she prefers May over Mae. I just wanted to let her know that Mae has a separate history from being a word, in case she didn't know.

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