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How would you pronounce Navie ?

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Bunnybigears · 20/03/2021 16:06

So how would you pronounce Navie?

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Zig4zag · 20/03/2021 17:19

Navy the colour. Nah-vee would be spelt Navee (like Naveen without the n)

PandaFluff · 20/03/2021 16:55

@Bunnybigears

Not Neigh a shorter Neh no y sound, I dknt know row to wright it. Maybe like how you would pronounce meh but with a n.
Oh! Glad you let us know thanks
PandaFluff · 20/03/2021 16:54

Nay-vee like Davy

Blueberries0112 · 20/03/2021 16:52

It would rhyme with wavy

StopGo · 20/03/2021 16:51

Nahr Vi, its the old French for Navy

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Bunnybigears · 20/03/2021 16:51

Not Neigh a shorter Neh no y sound, I dknt know row to wright it. Maybe like how you would pronounce meh but with a n.

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BackforGood · 20/03/2021 16:43

So, Neh (like a horse's 'neigh'?) then 'vie'........ surely that is Navy then ?

To be fair if your friend has chosen a really unusual name, she's going to have to get used to people asking how it is pronounced - or, more truthfully, over her life, the child.

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Bunnybigears · 20/03/2021 16:38

DH has manged to find it on Google (when I tried it just kept thinking I was spelling it wrong) apparently it is pronounced Neh vie and means beautiful bird.

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PegasusReturns · 20/03/2021 16:37

I’d think Na - vee like the workmen Confused

Bet it’s pronounced, navy though.

Poor kid Hmm

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Bunnybigears · 20/03/2021 16:34

I thought maybe it was just a name I had never come across and everyone would know how to pronounce it but obviously its not the case so I will just ask. Thanks.

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coles85 · 20/03/2021 16:31

Just ask your friend! Smile

My daughter's name can be pronounced a few different ways (it's not an unusual name, just has different pronunciations) and I've never been offended when someone has asked how I'd like them to pronounce it. I'm sure your friend would rather you asked than you make an attempt and her have to correct you if you're wrong.

For what it's worth I have no idea how I'd pronounce that one, possibly nah-vee

PiersMorganBigMLittleOrgan · 20/03/2021 16:24

@GreyhoundG1rl

God knows. You've just made up the name, who are we to tell you how to pronounce it?
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YouAreYourBestThing · 20/03/2021 16:24

Blimey 😟 Poor child! Is it a girl or boy?

dementedpixie · 20/03/2021 16:24

@GreyhoundG1rl

God knows. You've just made up the name, who are we to tell you how to pronounce it?
It is not a name she has chosen. It is the name of a friend's baby
Sexnotgender · 20/03/2021 16:22

Navvy.

GreyhoundG1rl · 20/03/2021 16:21

God knows. You've just made up the name, who are we to tell you how to pronounce it?

cantmovewont · 20/03/2021 16:19

Na-Vee - is that not another name for the toilet?

ChristinaYang10 · 20/03/2021 16:18

I’d guess at it rhyming with savvy, but that’s not a very pretty sound so maybe it is like navy the colour.

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Bunnybigears · 20/03/2021 16:14

Na-vee. But don't do it!

Thats how I would have thought it was pronounced as well, dont worry its not for me a friend has had a baby and I was going to call but didn't want to offend my pronouncing it wrong. Although mumsnet seem split so I may have to just bite the bullet and ask rather than risk it and get it wrong.

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Kottbullar · 20/03/2021 16:13

Navvy as in "Swear like a navvy".

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/03/2021 16:13

@Fyredraca

Nav-ee like the workmen who built the canals, railways etc
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Aozora13 · 20/03/2021 16:11

Navvy, like a canal worker.

I’ve not heard the name before though, how is it supposed to be pronounced?

katy1213 · 20/03/2021 16:11

Na-vee. But don't do it!

loobylou44 · 20/03/2021 16:10

Nay-vee but makes me think of naive ny-eve

Fyredraca · 20/03/2021 16:09

Nav-ee like the workmen who built the canals, railways etc