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HelpRe: Megan pronunciation/ “brics tegan”
in reply to a message by Tiggs
Interesting. For me (west coast US), "peg leg" rhymes, both with the short "e" sound. "Leg" with the long "a" sound doesn't sound wrong necessarily, but I wouldn't say it. But actually I think sometimes my pronunciation moves to somewhere in the middle between rhyming with "beg" and rhyming with "plague".
As for Megan, I would normally think to pronounce it "Meg-an" with the short "e", though I have heard people say "May-gan" which doesn't seem wrong, and now that I think about it, my pronunciation might fall somewhere in the middle of these two as well.
As for Tegan, I've always heard it pronounced TEE-gan.
and this is but an island in an ocean
As for Megan, I would normally think to pronounce it "Meg-an" with the short "e", though I have heard people say "May-gan" which doesn't seem wrong, and now that I think about it, my pronunciation might fall somewhere in the middle of these two as well.
As for Tegan, I've always heard it pronounced TEE-gan.
and this is but an island in an ocean
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Here in South Africa, peg rhymes with leg and beg. Short e, as in bet. I am familiar with leg rhyming with plague, but only as a dialectal (UK) pronunciation which some of my elderly relatives used for comic purposes "Ee, me lague" when complaining about, say, stiffness or a sudden cramp.
We have two different Megan situations here. Megan usually has the peg rhyme and Meagan is always MEEgan, long e as in speed. I've never heard MAYgan, but that proves nothing of course. And some Megan people use the MEEgan pronunciation.
The only Tegan I've met pronounced it TEEgan; for what it's worth, she was British.
We have two different Megan situations here. Megan usually has the peg rhyme and Meagan is always MEEgan, long e as in speed. I've never heard MAYgan, but that proves nothing of course. And some Megan people use the MEEgan pronunciation.
The only Tegan I've met pronounced it TEEgan; for what it's worth, she was British.
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