How would you pronounce this?

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Mummamia14 · 04/01/2017 22:53

Emmeline? Is it emma-line or emma-leen? I love the name emma but prefer a longer name. TIA

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Lunar1 · 04/01/2017 23:02

I wouldn't have a clue so would avoid saying it till I'd heard someone else pronounce it!

soundsystem · 04/01/2017 23:02

Emma-leen

DramaAlpaca · 04/01/2017 23:02

Lovely name. I'd pronounce it Emma-leen like in the poem by A A Milne where the first verse goes:

Emmeline
Has not been seen
For more than week. She slipped between
The two tall trees at the end of the green…
We all went after her. “Emmeline!”

The poem wouldn't work if it was Emma-line

girlandboy · 04/01/2017 23:01

Emma-leen. I've never heard it pronounced the other way.

lucieloos · 04/01/2017 23:00

Emma-Lean

Patriciathestripper1 · 04/01/2017 23:00

It's spelled Emma-line so that's how I would pronounce it

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Mummamia14 · 04/01/2017 23:00

Maybe emma-line is the american/Canadian way to pronounce it?

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MitzyLeFrouf · 04/01/2017 22:59

In the Anne of Green Gables TV series there's a character called Emmeline pronounced Emma-line. So both must be correct.

Uiscebeatha85 · 04/01/2017 22:56

Emma-leen, I've never heard of anyone pronouncing it Emma-line

sparechange · 04/01/2017 22:55

Like Pankhurst?
Emma-leen

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