Musical "Anything Goes"

viz48 | 10:08 Thu 24th Jan 2008 | Arts & Literature

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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?

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'Eve', as in Christmas Eve + lin.

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

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'.

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