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[drunkontea.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many of you watch America's Next Top Model, but this cycle had two Amy's so one of them had to change her name. She changed it to Amis (pr. "aim-miss"). Wdyt?

Personally, I like how it sounds, but the spelling looks like a typo of Amy... or multiple Amy's. Also, I just did a search on the name, and apparently it's the name of the indigenous people of Taiwan.

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[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I think she just shuffled around the letters of her name a bit and subtracted some (I think both girls on ANTM spelled their name Aimee)...I wish she had called herself Aims which sounds like a nick name for Aimee rather than Amis which sounds like a car rental company.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

It's funny, Aimee & Amy are two completely different names to me.
Probably because we pronounce Aimee like Eh-MAY over here.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I know a girl who pronounces it eh-MAY. I believe she is Romanian.
I know two other Aimee's that pronounce it like Amy.
However, I'm reasonably certain that the girls on ANTM say it like Amy.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Yeah it makes a lot of sense in an English/American setting.

I'm fairly sure Eh-MAY is the French pronunciation, since it's their word for 'loved'.