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Oh.
The "Aimee" page is for "Aimée", with the accent.
It makes a difference.
"Amy" and just "Aimee" is pronounced the same.
Trust me.
Personal experience.
"Amy" is just my English name so I changed it to "Aimee" for a while.
I just recently decided to change it back to "Amy".
Though I find myself occasionally slipping back into writing "Aimee".
Sighs. I suppose I brought it onto myself.

This message was edited 1/9/2007, 8:52 PM

I pronounce them the same if the Aimee doesn't have the accent mark.

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I too prefer the Aimee spelling over Amy.

thx...

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thx everybody for the clarification.
living in switzerland and having a few french relatives
it might take some effort to convince them that
the missing accent (é) on the first e is not realy
a typo ;-) but i guess its worth the effort.

As mirfak said already, I think the pronunciation can go either way in the U.S.

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I knew one Aimee who pronounced it AY-mee; she had a French last name but did not speak French or, as far as I knew, have any French near relatives.

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I knew another girl who had Aimee (with the accent) as a middle name; her first name and other middle names (she had more than one) were all French, and her mother was a French teacher who had grown up in France. Her "Aimee" was pronounced ay-MAY.

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IrishGirl mentioned that the presence of an accent indicates the French pronunciation, while its absence indicates the American. I think this is often true, but I wouldn't use it as a rule.

If the bearer is from an English speaking family, it's up to her and her family how Aimee is pronounced. Usually, English speaking Aimees in the US will tell other English speakers to say AY-mee. All the Aimees I've ever known do (I'm in the US). Among French speakers they'd almost certainly say it the French way. I knew a bilingual Aimee who used the accent and the French pronunciation among her French relatives, but asked her friends at school to call her AY-mee.

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So if you want to use the spelling Aimee and the pronunciation AY-mee, in the US that'd be conventional.

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- mirfak

Yes they are pronounced the same way. Aimee (without the accent) and Amy. However, with the accent, Aimée, is pronounced eh - MAY.

The pronunciation isn't the same way. Aimée is French and that's why the pronunciation is different. Aimée is pronounced: eh-MEH / eh-MAY, sort of in between those. But I imagine an English speaking person would say AY-mee at first glance.