How do you pronounce vivien?

The recorded pronunciation is /vˈɪviən/.

vivien

/vˈɪviən/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

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""This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - - -"
"He didn't like her first name. '"Vivian" - it's neither one thing nor the other. It'll confuse people. They won't know if you're a man or a woman. Will you agree to spelling it "Vivien"?'"

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