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This is a top-tier boy name in my mind. I love the way it sounds and looks. I pronounce it as “ə-MIE-us,” personally.
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Amyas Leigh is the main character in Charles Kingsley's 1855 novel "Westward Ho!" He was based on the real-life Elizabethan naval commander Sir Amyas Preston. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Preston,_Amyas
I have heard the name pronounced as Amy-us [/eɪ/mjəs]
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I have heard the name pronounced as Amy-us [/eɪ/mjəs]
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I know someone named Amius, and I think that it's a really cool name. "Uh-my-us"
Amyas is really cool too.
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Amyas is really cool too.
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It's just a longer version of Amy ;)
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No it isn’t, lol.
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In the (David Suchet as Poirot) TV adaptation of "Five Little Pigs," Amyas is pronounced as AM-ee-əs.
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When I was 17 weeks pregnant, I found out I was expecting my fifth boy and that he had a faulty kidney. Through the next 21 weeks, I grew to love the baby I was so close to losing, that Amyas was the only name that felt right: LOVED.
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Amyas le Poulet is the real name of Clarence in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
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A famous bearer of this name is Amyas Godfrey, a child actor on the Classic Nickelodeon show "You Can't Do That On Television". The name on the show was pronounced "Amy-us".
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I have heard this name pronounced am-EE-us.
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In Agatha Christie's "Five Little Pigs" (a Hercule Poirot mystery), the victim's name is Amyas Crale. The television show "Poirot" used the story (and character names) for one episode.
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Yeah, I first & last heard this name in the Poirot episode. And I kinda like it.
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