text: british pronunciation, please? how is the name "clive" really supposed to be pronounced?  most americans rhyme it with "chive", but i've also heard it rhyme with "sleeve".  what's correct? i'm british. i've never heard it rhymed with sleeve. i've only only ever heard it like "will clive dive into the bee-hive before we arrive?"  there's a place in england called cleveland, where cleve- rhymes with sleeve; and there's the word cleave, from which we get cleavage :)