Comments on: Existential name crisis, party of one

By: spamwarrior

spamwarrior — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:12:31 +0000

I’d pronounce it Megg – inn…

I have a sister whose name is Jessie. I and the rest of the people call her Jeh – see.

However, my mom calls her “Jyahh – see.” Strange. And my grandma calls her “Jay – see.”

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:33:55 +0000

Oh, Megan — how right you are! I’m of the opinion that “Megan” is the best way to spell our name. But then again, I’m a wee bit biased…

And “Mee-gann” makes me crazy, too!

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:33:00 +0000

Why, thank you, Stacy! You and the gentleman at Borders, which is a good start!

By: stacybuckeye

stacybuckeye — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:38:23 +0000

Well, however you choose to pronounce it (it is your name after all) I will be happy to think of you as British from this day forward!

By: megan

megan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:56:54 +0000

I say mine the way you do – “Meg-inn.” I get more of a “May” sound the farther south I go. I’ll answer to either. What I don’t answer to is “Mee-gann.”

I, too, attempted to go by my middle moniker during my freshman year of high school, but like you, I couldn’t get used to having to answer to a name that wasn’t my own.

Perhaps next time you should bring up the topic of the spelling of our name. I’ve offended many people as a result of heated discussion about it. Fun times.

By: bermudaonion

bermudaonion — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:42:45 +0000

We have a Megan in our family and we say May-ginn.

By: Lenore

Lenore — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:33:43 +0000

My last name is Appelhans. I pronounce the a in hans as a long a so it sounds more European. My family does a short a.

By: Staci

Staci — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:08:53 +0000

I loved this story..never thought of the way I’ve pronounced Megan in the past. Now you have me doubting myself!!

By: Papa Snider

Papa Snider — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:06:25 +0000

It’s May-ginn. I named you, I should know.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:22:07 +0000

That’s crazy! Why in the world would he think you’d pronounce the H?! I had teachers in school who would repeatedly mispronounce my last name — no matter how many times I corrected them. How frustrating!

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:05 +0000

My name isn’t Megan, but Theresa. With an H. Said as Ter-esa or whatever. Growing up, I thought this a pretty standard, and boring, name. No one ever had trouble saying it. My biggest issue was people never writing the H. My third year in college, in a horrible statistics class, I had a professor who insisted on all of us using these cards propped on on the tables with our names on it. He called me the-resa. pronouncing the th sound. I corrected him repeatedly. I even put a big X through the H on my name card, to no avail. Now tell me, what was that about?

By: Miss Remmers

Miss Remmers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:11:08 +0000

Now, see you and I have a similar problem (with similar names!) Reagan can be pronounced a lot of different ways – mine is like the president. And I won’t try to list all of the ways to pronounce it — you are a lot better at that than me. I really don’t have anything else clever to add – but I found your story really funny!