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[thephoeb.livejournal.com]

How do you pronounce Imogen?
Is the emphasis on the hard "O" sound? Or do you just kind of skip over the O or give it an "A" or "eh" sound instead, like in Isobel?

Im-OH-gen
Ima-gen
IM-eh-gen
IM-oh-gen

I've only ever seen this name written down. I think I like it, but I don't think the first pronunciation sounds very feminine.

Comments

[kimber-leigh.livejournal.com]

i pronounce it:

EMMA-gen (like Isobel)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

IM-oh-jen.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

^ Me too!

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

IM-oh-gene.
That's how my mom pronounces it.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

oh, I used to pronounce it EYE-moe-jen

[queenofkaraoke.livejournal.com]

imogen heap's is pronounced IM-oh-jen, so that's how i've always said it. :)

[bluekoala.livejournal.com]

IM-uh-gen

I was pretty much the same way as you--I didn't know of it until I read it in a children's novel, and there I thought it was incredibly pretty. When I said it aloud I really disliked it.

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

Ima-gen

[kimber-leigh.livejournal.com]

that's funny.. i'm the only one that pronounces it "emma"... i think maybe it's because i'm from texas? *blushing* at my funny accent.. ;P

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

Same!

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

IM-oh-gen.
My top girl name, and also my best friends name [with the nn Imy (IM-ee)]!

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

I say im-oh-jin. My sister is a fan of Imogen Heap and I said her name how I say it and my sister acted like I butchered her name. I know my sister says it wrong, I just haven't had the chance to call her on it.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Ima-gen

very short 'a' sound.

[thephoeb.livejournal.com]

See, I've never heard anyone say Imogen Heap out loud before. I always read it im-OH-gen, then I realized that it probably doesn't have a strong "O" sound. My brain has trouble processing it any other way for some reason.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

IHM-uh-jin.

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

It depends on whether you are American or British.

Most Americans tend to say IMMA-jin. Most Brits say IM-oh-gen.