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"In Canada it's Me-GAN :)"
**** Well, I guess you Canadians are just as perverse as us Yanks. ;)
"But, I was watching a TV show once and the girl said it MEEEEE-gan, it just sounded so ugh, I dunno... not nice."
**** Meegan is an Irish surname related to Meehan, meaning "honorable", occasionally used as a given name (sometimes even spelled "Megan") and pronounced "mee-gan".
"I really don't think that there is a PROPER prounounciation."
**** With some names, you're right. There will be no "proper" pronunciation as long as regional dialects and regional accents remain in existence.
"She's a sister in Shakespeare's KING LEAR.... in my English class we prounounced it like REA-gan (Re like See)... but, on Jeopardy Alex said Regan like the President. :) So, I dunno...."
**** "REE-gan" is the way I'd heard it pronounced, also, in recordings of Shakespeare's KING LEAR. But the little girl in THE EXORCIST, I believe, was called "RAY-gan".
-- Nanaea
**** Well, I guess you Canadians are just as perverse as us Yanks. ;)
"But, I was watching a TV show once and the girl said it MEEEEE-gan, it just sounded so ugh, I dunno... not nice."
**** Meegan is an Irish surname related to Meehan, meaning "honorable", occasionally used as a given name (sometimes even spelled "Megan") and pronounced "mee-gan".
"I really don't think that there is a PROPER prounounciation."
**** With some names, you're right. There will be no "proper" pronunciation as long as regional dialects and regional accents remain in existence.
"She's a sister in Shakespeare's KING LEAR.... in my English class we prounounced it like REA-gan (Re like See)... but, on Jeopardy Alex said Regan like the President. :) So, I dunno...."
**** "REE-gan" is the way I'd heard it pronounced, also, in recordings of Shakespeare's KING LEAR. But the little girl in THE EXORCIST, I believe, was called "RAY-gan".
-- Nanaea
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You are correct, Nan, the little girl's name is pronounced RAY-gen. I will never forget that, as growing up, I was often told that I resembeled a young Linda Blair. That one always kinda made me mad. I also got the Alyssa Milano from Whose The Boss? alot as well. That one I take as a huge compliment, she's beautiful now, but I suspect they mean as a child. Oh well, a girl can dream, can't she? :)
Sarahjeanne
Sarahjeanne
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what does Sherine stand for?
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You should see me now. :P LOL Just kidding.
SJ
SJ
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