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Hi All,
How would you pronounce the name Emmeline? I'd pronounce it with a "line" at the end, but many sites online suggest the end of the name be pronounced "leen". Is this one of those names that the child will always have to be correcting people's pronunciation? I guess I just read it like Madeline... What are your thoughts? Bub would probably get called "Em" or "Emmy" anyway...
I'd pronounce it 'leen'.
Either way its a beautiful name :D
definitely "line" not "leen"
i think its gorgeous!
My first thought was a softer version of leen. (more like the lyn sound at the end of Caitlyn or Ashlyn)
Maybe because I have only ever heard it pronounced like that. I love Em or Emmie for short - so gorgeous.
Either way is lovely.
I would go with leen. Seeing as it's french why not go with the original pronunciation rather than an english pronunciation?
I immediately read "leen", but then I thought "line" like madeline. I agree with PP, it's beautiful either way. :)
I do think that you would be forever correcting people but then again any name that's slightly different is going to be like that. I've had someone mispronounce "Isaac" anyway :rolleyes: there's always going to be someone that gets the name wrong. If you love it, go for it. :)
I love Emmeline pronounced with the "line" I was hoping for it as a baby name for this bub but DH doesn't like it lol
I'd pronounce it like lean.
If you want a line sort of sound the Madeleine is pronounced with the line sort of sound so maybe use Emmeleine. Though now I've typed it up it just doesn't look right.
I thought Emma-leen.
Emma-Line
I looked after a patient with that name, she was horrid lol
Madeleine I pronounce Maddelyn so I guess Im wrong on all levels.
Id initially think 'line' for Emmeline
I would think line as well - but agree with everyone both pronunciations are really lovely!
i would read it emma-leen, but when you told me it was Emma-line i'd say "oh, how lovely" And then pronounce it like that! ;)
No you are right Pandora, Madeleine is pronounce Mada-lynn (in french). As far as I know.
this is one of my favourite girls names!
i pronounce it emma-lean
I would pronounce it "line" but I know someone of that name that pronounces it that way. A beautiful name that was on our short list. Ended up going with Emilia though, and I am sure that she will be spelling her name her whole life as everyone thinks it is Amelia.
I am sure that I watched a movie with a girl called emmaline pronounced "line" in it recemtly, but i can't think which movie it was!
I think leen but however you choose!
My cousin has a Sasha pronounced SAY-SHA and you get used to it!!
:hug:
I'd pronounce it "Line".
Emma lean for me! (I think it's absolutely gorgeous!)
I have Imogen and I always get asked how to pronounce it...
I have Finnian and I get the same... I think lots of people have trouble with pronounciations but once it's a childs name you run with it...
Emma-lean was what I originally thought when I read your thread title but after reading others replies I can see it as Emma-Line
I would pronounce it Leen but on Anne of Green Gables there was an Emmeline pronounced Line and I liked that too.
Showing my age here but there was a Hot Chocolate song Emmaline where they pronounced it Emma-lean which is how I thought it would be pronounced.
My friend has a child with this name..
Emme LINE
Oh - It was Anne of Green Gables that I watched recently that had an Emmeline in it!! Thanks Tinks I have been racking my brains alll night!
LOL! I love Anne of Green Gables, and I couldn't quite remember where I had heard the name either, I've liked it a long time...thanks for that! It must have been where I heard it first I think.
Thank you all so much for your input! I'll have to go back and do a count of "line" responses and "leen" responses, though I think DH likes "line" best anyway. I think they're both pretty. You guys are awesome, everyone else IRL is sick of talking about names with me!!!
Innana - DH''s favourite name is Imogen, and I tried to get him to agree to Finn for DS2. They're both awesome names.
Nai - I've been begging all weekend for "Genevieve", but DH won't let me have it :( Your girls names are very classy :)
Anyhow...thanks all for your input! I *think* we may have decided on Emmeline...now to find a middle name - it has to start with "M" so the initials are EMM - DH has a funny "thing" about initials...
I'd pronounce it 'Emme-leen', but then to me Madeline is pronounced 'Madde-linn' unless it's spelled 'creatively' to emphasise the long i, kwim? I guess I don't see it as pronounced the traditional english 'long i' because it's a French name, therefore, 'leen', not 'line' :) But that's just me :D
Thank you donna, for putting what I was trying to say so eloquently LOL! ;)
I went to school with a Emmeline- she/we pronounced it Emme-LINE :) its such a pretty name no matter which way you pronounce it.
i'd pronounce it as emma-lyn
I'd say 'leen' but that's because that's how someone I knew pronounced their name.
i'd say Emme ... leen but then that's probaby cause my DD's name ends in ' ine ' and we pronounce it ' een ' ;)
Yep me too! I love the name.. It's so pretty :):
I'd pronounce it "Line".
How is it pronounced Inanna? I thought: Fin i ann?? Am I right??:
I have Finnian and I get the same... I think lots of people have trouble with pronounciations but once it's a childs name you run with it...