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Emmeline - how do you pronounce it?

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xhannahx · 25/10/2017 07:13

Just that really, seems a bit of a mixed bag online between emme-line and emme-leen.

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coolaschmoola · 25/10/2017 07:16

Emme-line

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KoalaD · 25/10/2017 07:17

Emme-line

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SuperBeagle · 25/10/2017 07:18

Emme-line to rhyme with wine.

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KittyVonCatsington · 25/10/2017 07:19

My cousin has this name. It's pronounced Emm-ah-leen not Emm-ee-leen

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OldWitch00 · 25/10/2017 07:19

emma line

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KittyVonCatsington · 25/10/2017 07:19

Same pronunciation as Emmeline Pankhurst, basically. (Love this name and great woman!)

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GinIsIn · 25/10/2017 07:20

Em-ell-line. Like Caroline, Ottoline etc.

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Polly99 · 25/10/2017 07:20

-leen

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Bananamanfan · 25/10/2017 07:20

I would say Emma-leen, emma-line wouldn't have occured to me.

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 25/10/2017 07:20

Emmaleen

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NannyR · 25/10/2017 07:21

I've only ever heard it as emma-leen.

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NannyR · 25/10/2017 07:22

I've only ever heard it as emma-leen.

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Lozmatoz · 25/10/2017 07:33

The only one I’ve known is -keen

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Lozmatoz · 25/10/2017 07:34

Leen rather!

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17caterpillars1mouse · 25/10/2017 07:48

Emma-leen surely. I've never heard anybody irl day emme-line

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MagentaRocks · 25/10/2017 07:50

I know one and she pronounces it Emma Leen

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RapunzelsRealMom · 25/10/2017 07:54

Emma-leen, like the song - “gonna write your name high on that silver screen.

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IWouldLikeToKnow · 25/10/2017 07:55

Emm eh leen

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flowery · 25/10/2017 07:56

-leen

Have never heard it to rhyme with Caroline.

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RoganJosh · 25/10/2017 07:56

I’d think emma-leen.

Maybe Emma line if Irish.

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BowlingShoes · 25/10/2017 07:58

Emma-leen, like Emmaline Pankhurst.

I think it is pronounced Emma-lyne in America (my knowledge of this is based solely on the fact that there was a character called Emmaline in the 1980s Anne of Green Gables miniseries though!)

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ChocolateCrunch · 25/10/2017 08:10

Emma-leen, I'd say

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verystressedmum · 25/10/2017 08:15

I’d say Emma-leen

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CabernetSauvignyoni · 25/10/2017 08:17

The only Emmelines I know (from school and history) pronounced it -leen at the end.

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