poll: Megan

Poll #5465 Megan

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How would you typically pronounce the name "Megan"?

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ˈmeɡən (MEGG-an)
13 (72.2%)

ˈmeɪɡən (MAY-gun)
5 (27.8%)

ˈmiːɡən (MEE-gun)
0 (0.0%)

some other way which I'll talk about in comments
0 (0.0%)

The things you learn: choose/choice

I would have thought that choose and choice would be related, but they’re only related distantly: choose is Germanic (related to German kiesen/auserkoren; Kür, etc.) while choice is Romance (though ultimately from Germanic as well).