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But, Regan is conventionally pronounced REE-gan, not RAY-gan. If you just spell it Regan, I think most people will say REE-gan. Like in the Exorcist. Regan "RAY-gan" is the unconventional way. A lot of people pronounce Megan as MEE-gan, too. The conventional pronunciation of Megan where I live is MEG-an, like "beggin'" not like MAY-gan. I can hardly imagine anyone assuming Regan is "REG-an."

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I'm inclined to pronounce Rëgan as "RAY-gan" because the mark seems to be telling me it is pronounced differently from what is normal. YMMV

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Anyway, Rëgan seems to be inspired by names like Chloë and Brontë, but it ends up looking pretty airheaded, because the mark in those names is there to tell you that the ë is pronounced as a separate syllable, not to tell you that it's EE instead of AY. =\

This message was edited 6/24/2011, 11:24 AM