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Evey would best communicate EVV-y to me. Evvie in type looks like Ewie, which isn't exactly appealing. :-/

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I work with a woman named Evelyn who goes by Evie, pronounced EV-ee (not EE-vee). I'd leave it as Evie, possibly Evey, and just clarify the pronunciation in the beginning somehow. Like she is correcting another character on how to say her name, etc. :b

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Evie

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MJ

How about Evi? or Evvi, or Evvy also.

I would pronunce Evvie as EH-vee. Evie, Evey, or Evy would be the ones I'd consider as EE-vee, and I prefer them, but I just realized that I misread your question! Perhaps use Evvy? That would look more natural to me than Evvie, because it's similar to Livvy.

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This message was edited 3/31/2006, 9:21 PM

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I don't think that there is anything wrong with the EE prn despite the full name (which I love, btw). I definitely like the look of Evie better than Evvie. Besides, since it's in text and not spoken, readers are going to put their own spin on it anyway.

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Imagine my shock when they made The Bone Collector a movie. I'd been picturing the main character in a brooding, Julian MacMahon type way, and they cast Denzel Washington. He did a fine job, but geez. Not what I was expecting. Same thing with the names. Part of the joy of books is making it your own, interacting with the text.

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(Or for a more relevant example: we're reading Uncle Tom's Cabin in American Lit right now, and I had been prn Emmeline's character as Emme-LEEN. Then my professor and most of the class started saying Emme-LINE, much to my chagrin. It happens.)

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Go with the spelling you like. Chances are your audience will make up its own prns anyway. :)

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I assume you want it to look like eh-vee instead of ee-vee then?

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I pro. Evie and Evey and Evy as eh-vee, personally... I think it's just one of those names people are going to pronounce how they want, no matter the spelling. You could spell it Ehvee and people would still say ee-vee...

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Sorry!

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Away around this could be incorporating a line of dialogue explaining how to say it, along the lines of:

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random character (R.C.) - "Why'd you put Evie on here instead of Evelyn?"

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Evie - "It's eh-vee, not ee-vee, and I used it because nobody calls me Evelyn."

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or

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R.C. picks up phone - "eh-vee? I don't know an eh-vee... oh, you mean Evelyn, yeah, hold on - hey EVIE! EVELYN! PHONE FOR YOU!"

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lmao.

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:-) lol I've read loads of books with similar situations, all done to make sure people say the name right! I'm pretty sure JKR does a similar thing in one of her books for Hermione and Sirius :) Though, hers are much more subtle! lol

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You could spell it Evie and have someone in the story mispronounce it and be corrected.

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Evvie looks like Ewie to me. Not good.

I prn. Evie as EE-vee, so that gets my vote.

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