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babynames2010-04-05 07:23 pm
arbus.livejournal.com) wrote in babynames2010-04-05 07:23 pm
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if you were going to name your daughter some variation of margo, how would you spell it?
i don't like this because at first glance i think it looks like maggot lol
is this legit? or do you mean margaux?
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
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
do you mean margaux? i have never seen the spelling you are referring to.
If I had to use it, I would use the Margaux spelling.
Margaret
Margo/eaux/aux/ot is a nickname.
Margo/eaux/aux/ot is a nickname.
margaret is not an option. and margo/t/aux has been a stand alone name for centuries.
Margo or Margot. I know that Margot may get mispronounced, but I do slightly prefer the spelling.
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.
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.
Margot. And love it. Just went over this with a friend =]
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.
I've known four in my time, Two Margeauxs, and one each of Margo and Margot. I like it with the T :)
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. ^^
Book I recently snagged from the library: "Margaux with an X," lol. ^^
I went to high school with someone who spelled it Margeau, but I prefer Margo.
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.
But personally I bar names that have to be spelled out all the time, life's too short for all that nonsense.
Margot, probably because Margo looks incomplete to me.
Margeaux!
Margot makes me read mar - got even though i know how it *should* be.
Margo......... looks incomplete.
Margot makes me read mar - got even though i know how it *should* be.
Margo......... looks incomplete.
Margot, definitely. I love it, and if it wasn't my cousin's name it would be on the list for sure.
Margot. Margo looks incomplete to me.
Probably Margo just to avoid the constant correcting of people.
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