[identity profile] arbus.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
if you were going to name your daughter some variation of margo, how would you spell it?
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Date: 2010-04-05 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lustdumpster.livejournal.com
i don't like this because at first glance i think it looks like maggot lol

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Date: 2010-04-05 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adamantplatypus.livejournal.com
I'm a HUGE believer that if you spell something, the spelling is how people are going to pronounce it.

I'd be INCLINED to spell it Margo, but then everyone that knows it should be Margot are going to comment on that, too.

SO: Do I want my kid to be called Mar-got for the rest of her life, or do I want her to hear "Oh, you meant without the t?" forever?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Date: 2010-04-05 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gipro2003.livejournal.com
If I had to use it, I would use the Margaux spelling.

Date: 2010-04-05 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com
Margaret
Margo/eaux/aux/ot is a nickname.

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Date: 2010-04-06 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kilobites.livejournal.com
Margo or Margot. I know that Margot may get mispronounced, but I do slightly prefer the spelling.

Date: 2010-04-06 12:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joereaves.livejournal.com
I prefer it as a nickname but I'd spell it Margot as I've only ever seen that as the correct (anglicised) spelling (obviously there are francophone spellings as shown in earlier comments but I'm not French and I don't live in a French speaking country so I wouldn't, personally, use them.

Margo just looks like a typo or someone who didn't know how it was spelt and had only heard it to me. Not that I'd ever seen it before this post at all.

Date: 2010-04-06 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 1842.livejournal.com
margot

Date: 2010-04-06 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-the-ashes.livejournal.com
Margot. And love it. Just went over this with a friend =]

Date: 2010-04-06 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skudge.livejournal.com
I personally prefer Margot, but whenever I've met people named Margot in real life everyone pronounced their name wrong, so Margo may be better.

Date: 2010-04-06 01:15 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-06 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarahness.livejournal.com
Maahr'gooheaux

Date: 2010-04-06 02:14 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-06 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] becomingun.livejournal.com
I've known four in my time, Two Margeauxs, and one each of Margo and Margot. I like it with the T :)

Date: 2010-04-06 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frost.livejournal.com
Margaux > Margot > Margo. Margeaux seems like it has too many letters, to me.
Book I recently snagged from the library: "Margaux with an X," lol. ^^



Date: 2010-04-06 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skittles22088.livejournal.com
I went to high school with someone who spelled it Margeau, but I prefer Margo.

Date: 2010-04-06 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com
Margo or Margot. The child has to live with it, after all...

But personally I bar names that have to be spelled out all the time, life's too short for all that nonsense.

Date: 2010-04-06 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quitmyscene.livejournal.com
Margot, probably because Margo looks incomplete to me.

Date: 2010-04-06 07:13 am (UTC)

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Date: 2010-04-06 06:11 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-06 06:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mommyaubrey.livejournal.com
Margeaux!
Margot makes me read mar - got even though i know how it *should* be.
Margo......... looks incomplete.

Date: 2010-04-06 06:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pythianlegume7.livejournal.com
Margot, definitely. I love it, and if it wasn't my cousin's name it would be on the list for sure.

Date: 2010-04-06 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rubytitania.livejournal.com
Margot. Margo looks incomplete to me.

Date: 2010-04-06 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pegasus2o5.livejournal.com
Probably Margo just to avoid the constant correcting of people.
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