Musical "Anything Goes"

[viz48]

In the musical Anything Goes there is a character called Evelyn Oakleigh , an English Lordl. How do you pronounce Evelyn as a man's name?

[Quizmonster]

'Eve', as in Christmas Eve + lin.

[saxy_jag]

Yep - a colleague is married to an Evelyn. She calls him 'Eve-lyn'

[jno]

same as for a woman. The novelist Evelyn Waugh had a wife also called Evelyn

[Quizmonster]

Sometimes, J. Females with the name Evelyn often pronounce the 'Eve...' as in the opening three letters of 'ever' rather than as in Xmas 'Eve'.