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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Okay, but since it's the only way I understand the difference, I'm going with it, lol! :)
Darla Don, I mean Dawn
Darla
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LOL!
Yeah, it's definitely still only one syllable-- but I always thought it was all of you that were saying it wrong! lol ;)
Hi, I'm still here, and I don't pronounce it Doe-wun at all! It's definitely not two syllables, it's still only one. But I was trying to give an idea the sound that "aw" makes, and I noticed that the mouth moves and the tongue is placed pretty similarly to the way it would be for the word "order" (without the "r" sound!) It's hard to put into words the pronunciation of "awe" (as in "awe-inspiring") b/c in a lot of other parts of the country, it's pronounced like "ah", not quite the way native NY(C)ers would pronounce it.
While it sounds like a lot of the non-NYC posters pronounce "Dawn" with a "short o" sound, I do not pronounce it with a "long o".
Darla
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my fave show is I Love Lucy, and on the episodes Tennessee Ernie Ford is on, they say youi-ns and we-ins, i know is exaggerated humor. that was my inspiration.
Definitely a regional thing. I'm from New York / New Jersey and I don't say these two names the same.
I say the O in Don like ahhhh (like open wide and say ahhh) - phonetically Dahn.
I say the AW in Dawn like awwww (like aww isn't that baby cute) - phoenetically Dawn - imagine Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live saying "This is Cawfee Tawk" and that's the sound of Dawn.
However I know that in other parts of the country people say it the same way - but I would never meet a girl named Dawn and think her name is Don. That's like people in other parts of the country say the boy's name "Aaron" and the girl's name "Erin" the same way (I don't).
Tracy
P.S. In case you're wondering,
haha, I was thinking about "Aaron/Erin" too and was going to post something about it myself!!! I pronounce them the same way you do:
>>That's like people in other parts of the country say the boy's name "Aaron" and the girl's name "Erin" the same way (I don't).<<,
>>>P.S. In case you're wondering,
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