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HelpRe: How do you pronounce Megan?
in reply to a message by Martha
I used to like it very much; then it went viral.
Like Meg with an 'n. Meg, rhyming with peg and egg. Nothing else at all. And that also solves the spelling problem: Meaghan, Meagan, Maeghan and Maegan could sound like anything and get away with it. OK, probably not Reginalda!
If proof were needed, it's a Welsh diminutive of Meg, nn for Margaret. Which, in and of itself, proves nothing; but then one should consider Bethan: a Welsh diminutive of Beth, nn for Elizabeth. Nobody would turn that into BEEthan or BAYthan, and if they do, they shouldn't, and my Welsh great-grandfather should come back and haunt them.
Like Meg with an 'n. Meg, rhyming with peg and egg. Nothing else at all. And that also solves the spelling problem: Meaghan, Meagan, Maeghan and Maegan could sound like anything and get away with it. OK, probably not Reginalda!
If proof were needed, it's a Welsh diminutive of Meg, nn for Margaret. Which, in and of itself, proves nothing; but then one should consider Bethan: a Welsh diminutive of Beth, nn for Elizabeth. Nobody would turn that into BEEthan or BAYthan, and if they do, they shouldn't, and my Welsh great-grandfather should come back and haunt them.
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