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Re: Tegan
by Anneza
10/6/2020, 10:37 AM
in reply to a message by Perrine
I'd expect it to have a short e sound, so Teg- would rhyme with peg. Like Megan (which is Welsh), as it used to be before people started using a long ee and making it Meegan. I'm from South Africa. I don't think I've ever met a South African Tegan, and that's fine by me: it seems very uninteresting, as does Tamsin actually.
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- PrincessZ   +3
10/6/2020, 11:12 AM
I've never heard of anybody pronounce Megan with a long ee sound, I'm struggling to imagine that xD
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- Anneza   +2
10/6/2020, 12:45 PM
You are very lucky! Once I taught a class which contained a Megan and a Meegan: it made my head spin.
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- PrincessZ   +1
10/6/2020, 1:00 PM
Were they at least spelled differently? Gonna be honest, I'm not keen on the long "Meee-" sound just as much as I'm not keen on they "May-" or "-Gun" sounds
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- Anneza
10/6/2020, 11:53 PM
Same spelling, different sounds. I also dislike that very egotistical MEEE, and also names like Ivy and Ivan ... but that's not logical because I do like Iris.
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