Random PSA

[jadecat]

Anne is NOT pronounced Annie!

I'm so very sick of a rather simple name being consistently pronounced wrong! Also, this only started as of a few years ago.

Anne with silent E is NOT new!

It's not Annie of Green Gables, Queen Annie Boleyn, Annie Hathaway, Princess Annie, or Annie Rice. It's ANNE! Argh!

Comments

[h0taru.livejournal.com]

That's bizarre.


I can understand "Anne" being pronounced more like "Anna" if you were speaking to certain Europeans (Germans pronounce the ending vowel, but wouldn't say it as an eee sound). But Annie? That's dumb.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Anna I could almost get behind- especially if the speaker is foreign. But people with American accents? Oi.