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Esme vs. Esmé vs. Esmee Or Esmée
Help! I’m having a baby girl soon and I’ve always loved the name Esme pronounced Ez-may. The only problem is that I live in the south and I don’t want people calling her Ez-me. Which way should I spell it so that even people with thick drawls will pronounce it correctly. Thanks!
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Esmee Or Esmée
Poll created: Jul 22, 2015
Total Votes: 12
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Either one of the spellings with double E at the end will be pronounced Ez-mee. Esme is a fifty-fifty chance of which pronunciation she will hear. Esmé would also be a fifty-fifty chance because not many people are going to know what the little accent above the E means. Either one Esme or Esmé would be your best bet of people pronouncing it Ez-may and not Ez-mee. GL!
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:: 9 years ago |
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Just spell it the correct way, which is Esme. Butchering the spelling isn’t going to help.
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:: 9 years ago |
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Esme or Esmé.
Whilst I think Esmé would be more likely to be pronounced correctly, I think having an accent in a name in the US might get annoyingly left of things e.g. I live in the UK and am friends with a girl called Siân. The accent over the a is almost always missed off, she’s regularly annoyed by it.
So calling her Esmé is nice, but it will probably get spelled Esme a lot. So you may as well go with Esme. Once you’ve said her name is Ez-may people will catch one, it only takes one correction.
Whilst I think Esmé would be more likely to be pronounced correctly, I think having an accent in a name in the US might get annoyingly left of things e.g. I live in the UK and am friends with a girl called Siân. The accent over the a is almost always missed off, she’s regularly annoyed by it.
So calling her Esmé is nice, but it will probably get spelled Esme a lot. So you may as well go with Esme. Once you’ve said her name is Ez-may people will catch one, it only takes one correction.
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Esmée is the feminine spelling of the name. Esmé is the masculine form. It’s like the difference between Renée and René.
I’m confused, posters 2 and 3. How is spelling these name the more classic way "butchering" the spelling? And who’s trolling? You mean poster 2, right? Not the poster? Right?
I’m confused, posters 2 and 3. How is spelling these name the more classic way "butchering" the spelling? And who’s trolling? You mean poster 2, right? Not the poster? Right?
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