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Help[Opinions] Esme or Esmee?
Which spelling do you prefer for a girl with the name?
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This message was edited 3/23/2012, 9:24 PM
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Either works, though I'd be more inclined to go with the 2 Es @ the end w/ an accent on the 1st.
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Esme
I say EZ-may. For some reason, Esmee looks like it should be pronounced EZ-mee, which I don't like at all.
I think Esme is a really beautiful name. It's short and sweet and just my style. In fact, i don't really know why it's not on my list!
I say EZ-may. For some reason, Esmee looks like it should be pronounced EZ-mee, which I don't like at all.
I think Esme is a really beautiful name. It's short and sweet and just my style. In fact, i don't really know why it's not on my list!
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Esme is the female form always used in South Africa, and I can't account for it either. But since it's what I'm used to, I prefer it. Esmee seems to be trying to prove a point - or it would here.
Historically, South Africans have been rather bad at French, but keen to use French names as a nod to the Huguenot immigrants who kickstarted our wine industry. So I've encountered horrors like Charl (to avoid confusion with Charles ...) and some strange traffic-accident names like Jeandre (which is unisex). But all the girl Renees I've ever known have had the statutory -ee. Go figure.
Historically, South Africans have been rather bad at French, but keen to use French names as a nod to the Huguenot immigrants who kickstarted our wine industry. So I've encountered horrors like Charl (to avoid confusion with Charles ...) and some strange traffic-accident names like Jeandre (which is unisex). But all the girl Renees I've ever known have had the statutory -ee. Go figure.
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Esme. A lovely name.
:)
:)
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Esmée is the correct feminine version. Esmé is masculine. However I think in the US you could definitely use Esmé or Esme, Esmee (without the accent) as well. It was never used much in France. I would choose Esmée or Esmee but I'm not a fan of the name's English pronunciation. Even when people try to pronounce it the French way it never sounds right unless they learned French at an early age. It's definitely not ez-MAY. The second syllable doesn't sound like May it's more of a really long MEH. It's hard to explain but definitely no AY sound in there. Also kind of Twilight trendy. I wouldn't mind meeting one, though. I only know two Esmes - one is in her 30s, the other is 10.
This message was edited 3/21/2012, 1:20 PM
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I think I will go with Esmée. Esmé really was the ultimate flash in the pan for me. I liked it intensely for about a month in 2009, and then, through various means (Twilight usage, BtN users associating it with phlegm) I began to be repelled by it. Esmée is definitely an improvement, and linguistically logical via the French feminine suffix.
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Esme
If you're in the US.
If you're in the US.
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Esmée
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this exactly. :)
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Yep yep.
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Esme
I feel like it's well established for girls at this point, at least in the US and multiple other English-speaking countries. Esmee/Esmée seems fussy and complicated by comparison, and it would probably only lead to pronunciations I don't want, like es-MEE.
I feel like it's well established for girls at this point, at least in the US and multiple other English-speaking countries. Esmee/Esmée seems fussy and complicated by comparison, and it would probably only lead to pronunciations I don't want, like es-MEE.
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Esme
Why 3 E's in a name that's only 5 letters?
Why 3 E's in a name that's only 5 letters?
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Do you feel the same way about Renee
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Oh, I hadn't even thought of Smee. What an awful person to "share" a name with.
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Esmée.
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