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HelpRe: Tegan or Teagan
in reply to a message by LizLavender
I’m not a fan of this name at all in general. If I had to choose a spelling, I’d choose Teagan. I prefer the a; it just looks nicer. Also, it has the word “tea” in it which is kind of cool. I think Tegan could be confusing to pronounce.
Tegan reminds me of the name Megan, which I pronounce as “Meh-guhn”. I don’t like Megan pronounced as “Mee-guhn” like the word “vegan”…and the way Tegan is supposed be pronounced as. I might accidentally read Tegan as “Teh-guhn;” like Megan with a T. I do prefer “Tee-guhn” to “Teh-guhn,” however.
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Tegan reminds me of the name Megan, which I pronounce as “Meh-guhn”. I don’t like Megan pronounced as “Mee-guhn” like the word “vegan”…and the way Tegan is supposed be pronounced as. I might accidentally read Tegan as “Teh-guhn;” like Megan with a T. I do prefer “Tee-guhn” to “Teh-guhn,” however.
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Tegan's original pronunciation was "Teh-guhn". The "English" pronunciation with the sound of the word "tea" was originally only an Australian thing. In Australia Megan is normally pronounced "Mee-guhn", and so "Tee-guhn" naturally was how that name came to be pronounced in Australia. Because the name was rare outside of Wales, when a character who was an Australian woman appeared on the "Dr. Who" television series in the 1980s, her name was pronounced in the Australian way, and that got people in England and the USA to think that "Tee-guhn" was the correct pronunciation instead of the original Welsh "Teh-guhn". Personally, I wish that had not happened and that the original Welsh pronunciation was what was used everywhere.
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Interesting! In that case, I’d prefer the same. I still do prefer the sound of “Tee-guhn” to “Teh-guhn”. However, pronunciations are different across other cultures. For example: In some European countries, they pronounce Anna as “Awh-nuh”. Whereas, in English (at least in America), it’s pronounced as “AN-nuh”. My American English eyes always resort to “AN-nuh,” it’s the same with “Tee-guhn”. I do think that the original Welsh pronunciation should’ve been used with the spelling Tegan, however.
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