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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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KelKachoze · 20/03/2021 16:07

Navy

HarkAVagrant · 20/03/2021 16:07

I’ve never heard it before but my instinct would be Navvy.

Scarby9 · 20/03/2021 16:07

Like the colour.

Draculahhh · 20/03/2021 16:07

Personally like Nay-vee.

drinkplease · 20/03/2021 16:07

Navvy

KelKachoze · 20/03/2021 16:08

(As in the colour)

EileenGC · 20/03/2021 16:08

Navy. Although I did have to read it twice as I wasn’t sure if it was ‘naive’.

sleveen · 20/03/2021 16:08

Nah-vee

TheBiscuitStrikesBack · 20/03/2021 16:08

Nahvey

CustardCreamm · 20/03/2021 16:08

Navy

WeatherwaxLives · 20/03/2021 16:08

Navy. As in Army and RAF.

TheWaif · 20/03/2021 16:09

Navvy.

I thought this was a thread asking how to spell naive too.

Fyredraca · 20/03/2021 16:09

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

loobylou44 · 20/03/2021 16:10

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

katy1213 · 20/03/2021 16:11

Na-vee. But don't do it!

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?

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/03/2021 16:13

@Fyredraca

Nav-ee like the workmen who built the canals, railways etc
This.
Kottbullar · 20/03/2021 16:13

Navvy as in "Swear like a navvy".

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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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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.

cantmovewont · 20/03/2021 16:19

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

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?

Sexnotgender · 20/03/2021 16:22

Navvy.

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
YouAreYourBestThing · 20/03/2021 16:24

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