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Comments for the name Augustin

Comments for AUGUSTIN:

A famous bearer of this name (which can also be pronounced aw-GUS-tin or AW-gus-tin) is Augusten Burroughs, the #1 bestselling author. His books include "Running With Scissors" and "Sellevision."
-- Isla  1/19/2006
Pet forms: Auggie, Aggie, Gusta, Gustav, Gustin.
-- Karcoolka  6/27/2007
The form Augustin is also used in Bosnia, Croatia and Romania. [noted -ed]
-- Lucille  9/24/2007
My friend Gus pronounces his Augustin, a-gus-tin, just as it sounds.
-- jmacsgurl1991  9/27/2007
Augustin is also the Czech form. [noted -ed]
-- Maggie_Simpson  11/29/2007
I don't think you can pronounce it the French way unless you're French, because the endings in -in are not pronounced like the feminine in -ine. Augustin is a very old name.
-- luxsword  10/24/2008
In Croatian it's pronounced Ah-oo-GOOS-teen.
-- goricar  8/17/2010

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