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[apathykisses.livejournal.com]

Emmeline


How would you pronounce this? I'm pronouncing it like Clementine, but alot of the baby name sites say it's Emma-leen.

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[gipro2003.livejournal.com]

I pronounce it this way also.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

In English, the difference between those vowels is kind of negligible, depending on the word. Because the emphasis is on the first syllable, the vowel in the second gets lost a little bit. So most people would pronounce Emmeline and Emmaline pretty much the same.

With EM-me-lee-neh, you mean the second and fourth syllables have the same vowel, right? (Like the sound in the word "set"?) Wouldn't the stress be on the third syllable, though? In German I think it would be (although I'm not fluent).

[soapfaerie.livejournal.com]

"In English, the difference between those vowels is kind of negligible, depending on the word. Because the emphasis is on the first syllable, the vowel in the second gets lost a little bit. So most people would pronounce Emmeline and Emmaline pretty much the same."

This. I saw it and immediately thought "emma-leen" myself.