Message: "How would you pronounce Phebe?"

[Opinions] How would you pronounce Phebe?

by Phebe

8/13/2010, 2:31 AM

I recently chose this name for myself (I'm not happy with my birth name, it doesn't 'fit' me)
I really liked the name Phoebe, but to me it was just a little too much Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
But how would you pronounce this name?
The same as Phoebe (FEE-bee) or a little different FAY-be (I like the last one)

#pronunciation

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- Andromache (Hannah Ruth) +1

8/13/2010, 6:05 PM

I'd probably pronounce it the same as Phoebe. It looks like a dumbed-down respelling of Phoebe, tbh.

I don't really understand why you would change the spelling because of a character in a sitcom. It still sounds the same.

- Phebe

8/14/2010, 7:37 AM

It's not just because of the sitcom, I like it better this way.
Phebe just an alternate spelling, lot's of names have an alternate spelling.
Phebe was also used in Shakespeare (I like Shakespeare)

- Alcyone

8/13/2010, 12:14 PM

I pronounce it FEE-bee like Phoebe.

- New_Chloe

8/13/2010, 7:58 AM

same as Phoebe

Though I think it would get "feeb" a lot, as YellowRose does.

Have you legally changed your name? Febe is the Hungarian (I think?) version of Phoebe if that appeals to you as well.

- Yellow Rose (YellowRoseOfTX)

8/13/2010, 6:32 AM

I'd pronounce it FEEB.

- Wordsmith +1

8/13/2010, 6:20 AM

I'd pronounce it the same way I pronounce Phoebe.

- BellamynSora

8/13/2010, 7:13 AM

Ditto

- Phebe

8/13/2010, 5:28 AM

I think it's also different on where you live my local friends say FAY-be (non-native English speakers)

I was just curious how others would pronounce Phebe, mostly like Phoebe I guess, both ways are fine to me.

In Dutch the spelling is Febe (the Bible Rom. 16:1)

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- dancingintherain

8/13/2010, 4:52 AM

to me, this looks more likely to be pronounced 'Phee-bee' more then Phoebe does...

- Anneza

8/13/2010, 4:27 AM

Certainly the same as Phoebe! I couldn't imagine anyone going the FAY-be route. Phebe is just a historically fossilised spelling mistake, not a pronunciation variant.

If you really like the sound of FAY-be, try Mabel. At least it's accurate.

- indigopearl

8/13/2010, 4:09 AM

Either as FEE-bee (thinking it was a bad spelling) or just FEEB, (thinking it was a nickname)

- Llewella (penguiny7)

8/13/2010, 4:07 AM

I would assume it's supposed to be a "creative" spelling of Phoebe. But in my head it would be said FE-bee.

- abbasdaughter

8/13/2010, 3:51 AM

I'd think it looked like an adulturated sp. of Fee-bee.

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