Anonymous
06/17/2025 18:07
Subject: Daughter’s name is Anne-people pronounce it Annie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The E in Anne is not silent, it’s more of a soft E. If you want no E you have to spell it Ann. They are not the same.
Not sure why you think this. Anne with an E is the classic, traditional spelling. And, yes, it certainly is more elegant with the E than Ann without the E. I always feel bad for people whose parents named the Ann without the E. It just looks like it’s missing something.
OP, read the Anne of Green Gables books to you daughter. She will love them and she will feel special for having the same name.
Anne is not classic based on my family records. You have a English/Western European bias.
Hit submit too soon … the e was pronounced in Middle English. If you want classic spelling, you would use Hannah, or the later Anna. So, yes, Anne was and in some places still is pronounced with a final vowel sound (e sounded a bit like a, do some research on the Great Vowel shift, for example).
-Ann
Anonymous
06/17/2025 18:00
Subject: Daughter’s name is Anne-people pronounce it Annie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The E in Anne is not silent, it’s more of a soft E. If you want no E you have to spell it Ann. They are not the same.
Not sure why you think this. Anne with an E is the classic, traditional spelling. And, yes, it certainly is more elegant with the E than Ann without the E. I always feel bad for people whose parents named the Ann without the E. It just looks like it’s missing something.
OP, read the Anne of Green Gables books to you daughter. She will love them and she will feel special for having the same name.
Anne is not classic based on my family records. You have a English/Western European bias.
Anonymous
06/17/2025 17:56
Subject: Daughter’s name is Anne-people pronounce it Annie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The E in Anne is not silent, it’s more of a soft E. If you want no E you have to spell it Ann. They are not the same.
This is not true at all. Many Annes in my family and it is pronounced Ann but spelled with an e.
As in:
Anne Bolyen
Anne Frank
Princess Anne
Queen Anne
Anne Hathaway
Anne of Green Gables
Anne Klein
and many more
To be fair, Anne Frank's name was actually pronounced the European way "Ahn-neh"
+100 (or ahn-nuh)
And actress Anne Hathaway prefers to be called Annie. While her legal name is Anne, she has stated that she doesn't like it and would rather people use Annie, according to The Independent.
Shakespeare’s wife would’ve pronounced it Ann but Hathaway would be pronounced Hat- a - way.
Of course, many Americans pronounce Porsche as if the e were silent. It is not.
Anonymous
06/17/2025 05:36
Subject: Daughter’s name is Anne-people pronounce it Annie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The E in Anne is not silent, it’s more of a soft E. If you want no E you have to spell it Ann. They are not the same.
This is not true at all. Many Annes in my family and it is pronounced Ann but spelled with an e.
As in:
Anne Bolyen
Anne Frank
Princess Anne
Queen Anne
Anne Hathaway
Anne of Green Gables
Anne Klein
and many more
To be fair, Anne Frank's name was actually pronounced the European way "Ahn-neh"
Get a grip PP. Stop.
Deutsch hat keine still e.