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I prefer Odile to Odette, and if they'd been my triplets and someone held a gun to my head, or to theirs, I'd have changed the names somewhat. Emily rather than Emmeline, certainly; Odile rather than Odette; and I'm not sure what I'd have done about Celine: Celia perhaps, or even Sally.

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How do people pronounce Emmeline in the US? A A Milne rhymed Emmeline with 'seen' and 'green' and 'queen', and that's what I grew up with. If he'd wanted to, he could have rhymed it with Caroline and written a different poem, but he went with what was clearly the default version in the 1920s or whenever!