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[cerise-blue.livejournal.com]

i'm going to do my best with the descriptions in this poll. i put an other option if i've missed your preference, too.

[Poll #835672]

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[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

I see Madelyn, Madeline, and Madeleine as different names. Madeline to me sounds like line, -lyn sounds like lynne, and -leine sounds like "lehne" (kind of layne).

[cerise-blue.livejournal.com]

same here! i've always said madeline as MAD-uh-line, madelyn as MAD-uh-lihn and madeleine as mad-uh-LEEN or mad-uh-LANE. my mom, on the other hand, insists they're all MAD-uh-lihn. lol.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

silly mom! they are totally different!
my husband and I are big on all things French. Madeleine was our choice for a girl name for a long, long time, but we had so many hem-and-haw sessions over the potential for mispronunciation. and we weren't willing to change the spelling.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

i ♥ that spelling. I say go for it, it's a legit french name. Yay for France!

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

Madeleine was our choice for a girl name for a long, long time, but we had so many hem-and-haw sessions over the potential for mispronunciation.

That's why I won't use the name Jeanne on a girl in the US. Everyone would say it like the pants or make it into separate syllables... but it's pronounced Zhahnne! :(

[cerise-blue.livejournal.com]

that always bothered me about jeanne, too! it's such a lovely name if people wouldn't make it into "jean" or "jee-nee."

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

That is EXACTLY how I see them too!!