Why is Zoe pronounced Zoey? Joe isn't pronounced like Joey, amirite?

Haha, when I was little I thought Zoe was pronounced like Zo.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I still read it that way in my head. I just can't see it and think Zoey.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

um false, zoe is the short form of zoey... It's not prounced weird...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Um false, many people actually spell it that way. I know 2 people who do this at my school.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

um thats stupid

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Umm I'm sorry. I can't control how people spell their children's names.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Isn't it meant to have 2 dots on the e to show that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, that's what those dots mean.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sometimes they do, but I know girls named Zoe, no dots.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's Zoë in other languages...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah I think it's supposed I be Zoë.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why isn't hoe pronounced hoey.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah, it's supposed to have two dots or sometimes the little dash, like on the end of Buble...and pronounced as such

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My name is Zoe...pronounced Zoeeeee :) It's not a short form of Zoey and I don't use 2 dots...it's just Zoe

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've never heard of a Cloey, either. Or Chloey, for that matter.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

One girl in my school puts 2 dots over the e in "Zoe" so it's Zoey. I always read "Zoe" as "zoh". And now that I think about it, that's a pretty weird-looking name.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Names don't follow grammar rules.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its need the trema to be correct (the 2 dots; ë) they signify that each vowels gets a separate sound like in noël (christmas)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In america we don't use the dots.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my name is Zoe (w/o the dots on top), its just the way u spell it. U can spell like Zoey, Zoe, Zoee, Zoi, Zoie and its still pronounced like Zoey. It's just that the ending letters all sound like "e". In Joe you don't say the "e" (Jo) but in Joey you do say the "e" Joey"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

because guys are so much better than women now get back to the kitchen and stop worrying about matters too complex for your tiny female brains

by Anonymous 13 years ago