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[Opinions] Emmeline
How do you pronounce Emmeline? Emma-line? Emma-leen? I've even seen Emma-lin.
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I pronounce it Emma-line

This message was edited 8/30/2015, 7:29 AM

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I pronounce it em-eh-LEEN, but I also like EM-eh-leen. I really dislike pronounciation with -line, especially with names, which I like. -Leen pronounciation is much better for me.
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Emma-leen
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Emme-lineI much prefer Emmaline (pronounced Emma-line) to Emmeline, though.
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I pronounce it Emma-line.
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I like to pronounce Emmeline as Emma-leen, and Emmaline as Emma-LINE.
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I am responding again because last night I dreamt I had a daughter named Emmeline (line, not leen) and it was pretty good. Renewed appreciation.
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I say emma-leen but with a slightly different emphasis than in the name Emma. Like EM-eh-leen (this distinction might not be obvious in some accents but in mine I think it is)I love Emmeline but I feel it would be confused for Emily all the time since Emily is so popular and sounds so similar.
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Em-eh-leen, but I know Em-eh-line is also legit so I wouldn't be suprises by that prn.I definitely wouldn't say it with an a in the middle though. May as well just name her Emma.
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Emmeline
Has not been seen
For more than a week. She slipped between
The two tall trees at the end of the green.
We all ran after her. "Emmeline,
We didn't mean -
We only said that your hands weren't clean."And many more rhymes indicating that, to AA Milne at any rate, -line and -lin just don't work. So, rhymes with Josephine, not Caroline or Marilyn.And, if you're concerned, Emmeline comes back to her distraught family:"Emmeline! Where have you been?
It's more than a week!" And Emmeline
Said "Sillies. I've been to see the Queen.
She says my hands are perfectly clean."
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Emma-line.
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Emma-line. I love it.
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em-eh-LEEN for me, and it's my favorite. I think em-eh-LINE is still quite nice, though. I don't care for the -lyn pronunciation. ...Wait, looking at the BtN key, are you not supposed to put the stress on the last syllable? ...Huh.
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Emma-leen, like Emmeline Pankhurst pronounced it.

This message was edited 8/23/2015, 12:38 PM

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I would be hesitant and probably just ask. But if I had to guess: emma-line
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Em-uh-leen. I think it's beautiful.
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I love Emmeline. It's so beautiful. I prn it EM-ə-leen.
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Thisnm
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Line, not leen. The leen pronunciation seems too nasal compared to the airy, musical line pronunciation. And then lynn pronunciation is not intuitive to me at all. That said, I am growing tired of the name because it is such an overused "darling" on this website.
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I pronounce it Emma-line, with a long I sound in the last syllable.I can't see this name without thinking of what my sister told me. When she was pregnant with her first child, she suggested Emmeline to her husband. He laughed uproariously. When he finally stopped laughing, he told her that he'd been laughing because Emmeline sounds like something you put into your car's gas tank.

This message was edited 8/23/2015, 11:43 AM

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