Esme

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

How do you all pronounce Esme? My husband and I love it for a middle name for our next daughter, or possible first name for hypothetical daughter after that. As he said, being the ones who write it and say it, we have the prerogative of deciding how to pronounce it, but I'd like to know if we're at least close. I prefer correct pronunciations, but I like the way we say it now: Ehz-mee. Also, I've seen it with an accent on the 'e'-- does that change the pronunciation and is it aigu or grave? Can you even use accent grave on the final letter of a word? Speaking of accents, if a name sometimes has a written accent it's mother language-- like Renee or Esme do you want to use it if your primary languages is English or of you not think accents should be used since we don't use written accents in English?

For sibsetness, our first daughter's name was [Brenna Rose][Sherman][Brown-Hand]. (she's deceased, so her name won't actually be said much)
Hypothetical future boy(s) will most likely be Jonah Edward and/or David Christopher. Maybe, less likely, Patrick Anthony or Anthony Patrick.

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Comments

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

ez-mee is the only way i've heard it in the US. i guess with an accent it would be ez-may

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Yay, two votes for my way! :)

I was actually just looking on a baby name site and I saw Esmee, accent on first e and Esme, no accent.. so maybe it's done both ways? Both were feminine. Maybe the second is the Americanized or Anglisized version.

Thanks. :)