Don or Dawn question....
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Don or Dawn question....
| Tue, 11-06-2007 - 5:36pm |
I'm not planning to use this name. I just wanted to know what others thought. I love the name Dawn, it was my Mom's middle name but I have known older men whose names are Don. To you, is it a girl or boys name? Does it depend on the spelling? I seem to learn more toward it being a female name if the spelling is Dawn but then again, like I said, I have met men named Don and didn't think twice. Just wondering....
~samantha

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Easy- I pronounce them differently!
Don is pronounced pretty much as it is spelled: Don
Dawn, for me is D-aw-n, not Dohn
Wow, where did you say you were from again?
Darla
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midwest here, around Chicago, we say Dawn like would say Yawn or Lawn, where as Don is just like On, with D in front. arent we funny how we all talk n drawl differently.
I'm also from NY and I totally get what fourthboyinaugust is saying, lol
How about this- for the name, Dawn- imagine sayind the word "order". Now imagine the vowel sound without the "r" following it. That is the sound of "aw" to us. It's not the same as "ah". "Ah" is a sigh, and "aw" has a sound that's kind of like trying to make the sound of "or", but not pronounce the "r". You kind of stop before you bring your teeth together to make the "rr" sound.
I have lived in Texas, Washington, Maryland, and Sicily, and we made a tour of the U.K. when visiting my mother's family there (where my cousin Dawn is). I also know a guy named Donald (Don).
They sound essentially the same to me. The only real difference is that Don is more clipped, and Dawn is said with the throat opened more than it is for Don.
Also, flutterdance, LMAO...what is "youins"?
I get it! I get it! I finally get it! I should have thought about it more when you said you were from the northeast. And this explanation helped me "hear" it (the "order" without the r). Dawn is almost 2 syllables for you, but not quite, right? Doe-wun ... that's not *quite* it, but I have the right idea going now, correct?
Okay, so ... um ... you're pronouncing it wrong. JUST KIDDING! But those of us who haven't "gotten it" so far pronounce the two names pretty much the same ... like DON.
Darla
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I can't remember what the name was but a few months back we had a huge, nasty debate about how it was pronounced.
Actually, the poster from NY who mentioned the Doe-wun sound is probably from the NYC/Long Island area of NY (are you still here poster?).
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