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[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

What do you think of the name Maeve?

Its kind of growing on me.

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[thalionhiril.livejournal.com]

I LOVE this name!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I love it:)

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love, love it. So does my fiance.

Unfortunately, I pronounce it correctly and he does not, and neither of us is willing to change the way we pronounce it. So we can't used it.

[snowowl.livejournal.com]

It is pronounced "may-v" right?

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

Correct - emphasis on the long A sound.

My finace insists on pronouncing it MY-ev. He says that the only time he's heard the name used was in some gaming thinger-ma-bobber and that's how the person using the name pronounced it. He doesn't care that it's incorrect and refuses to say it differently.

I told him that I'm not giving our child a name that we don't pronounce the same way across the board and I'm certainly not agreeing to pronounce it incorrectly just because that's what he prefers. It's a name that's likely to be mispronounced often enough without us screwing with it further.

Instead our chosen girl's name for the next baby (whenever that happens) is Abigal. Much easier ;)

[laurakirstine.livejournal.com]

So everyone pronounces it with two syllables?

My friend Maeve pronounces it with one syllable - Mayv.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I pronounce it with one syllable as well! Mayv.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I like it a lot! It's really pretty but also has a kinda spunky feel to it I think.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I really like it. I first heard (I guess saw... but I heard it in my head) Maeve in a book I read several years ago. The main character's birth mother, or some kind of ancestor, I believe.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[moshimoshi-13.livejournal.com]

Maeve Quinlan? ;)

Yeah, I like the name.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

You always catch me liking names of people from South of nowhere :P

[moshimoshi-13.livejournal.com]

Haha. I'm an obsessive fangirl. It's only natural.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm definitely bordering on obsessive myself.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Maeve Quinlan FTW!

...yeah ok, that was off topic ;)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

How could Maeve be mispronounced? It seems pretty straight forward...

[http://users.livejournal.com/__recidivist/]

I've seen it a few times lately, and I just don't like it. Maybe it's because I went to school with a Maeve who was very homely, quiet, and awkward, but it's not an attractive name for me, and not one that makes me think positive things about the person with that name. It's just sort of blah-- flat and old, like Maude and mauve.

Wow, I am passionate about the apathy "Maeve" makes me feel.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

Its strange..I dislike Maude a lot but I like Maeve.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I don't like Maude but I like it better than Maeve. I guess I don't like Maeve because I don't like Mae or May.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I don't like it.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

My absolute favorite!

If I ever have a daughter, I definitely plan on using it.

[yourcrowbar.livejournal.com]

never heard that name before in my life until like, yesterday. in this community.

i don't really like it

[krosp.livejournal.com]

It's quite nice. Reminds me of the author Maeve Binchy

[hotmaildt.livejournal.com]

I looooove it. My hubby hates it though, boo.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. It makes me think of the name Mavis, and of mauve. I don't hate it, though, and although I wouldn't use it, I think it's a fine name.

[umbrella-term.livejournal.com]

I like that name.

[liselaime.livejournal.com]

Maeve is one of my favorite names ever.

[danica.livejournal.com]

My niece is named Maeve and I LOVE it.