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How would you pronounce

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Babynameq21 · 26/09/2021 21:07

Aveline

(Without looking it up!)

  1. Ayva-Lyn
  2. Ayva-line
  3. Ava-lyn
  4. Ava-line
  5. Ayve-lyn
  6. Ayve-line
  7. One I haven't thought of!
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LizzieBet14 · 26/09/2021 22:16

@MeredithGreyishblue

Even though it wasn't about her, I always hear, "she is a TART!" after it!
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Babynameq21 · 26/09/2021 22:12

@jackstini

If you want that pronunciation I would spell it Avelyn or Avelynne
The first one could be an option! Not a fan of made up names usually though Hmm
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EekThreek · 26/09/2021 22:10

My brain read it in a Liverpool accent and I couldn't work out why until the first poster said Bread.

I'm 37 and my dad was a big fan. I think I must be around the cut off for remembering it, as my younger brother always looks blank when me and Dad ask each other "where's me dinner?"

jackstini · 26/09/2021 22:09

If you want that pronunciation I would spell it Avelyn or Avelynne

CaptainCaveMum · 26/09/2021 22:08

Avva- line

Rhymes with Have a line

MilduraS · 26/09/2021 22:08

Ah-veh-leen for me

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Babynameq21 · 26/09/2021 22:08

@speakout

I think if you have to start a post discussing how to pronounce a baby's name then that highlights a lifetime of confusion, mispelling and having to correct others for that child. It is bothersome. I know that from experience.

I gave my children easy names with no ambiguity.

Regretfully I agree! I'm actually quite conservative with baby names but I have loved this since I saw it in a book as a teenager so was hoping it would work - but doesn't look like it!
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NewtoHolland · 26/09/2021 22:07

Avearleen

MeredithGreyishblue · 26/09/2021 22:07

Even though it wasn't about her, I always hear, "she is a TART!" after it!

delilabell · 26/09/2021 22:07
  1. Ayva leen
MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 26/09/2021 22:06

4

nervousseacreature · 26/09/2021 22:04

Ahv-eh-line

AGreenerShadeofKale · 26/09/2021 22:04

Our Avva-LIIINE.

ISpyCobraKai · 26/09/2021 22:03

Aver line.
Like the character from bread.

KatherineJaneway · 26/09/2021 22:03

@trumpisagit

Av eh Line
This
MrsBungle · 26/09/2021 22:03

Av-ah-line

OuiOuiBonjour · 26/09/2021 22:02

Av-ah-leen

Undertheoldlindentree · 26/09/2021 22:02

Number 4!

speakout · 26/09/2021 22:02

I think if you have to start a post discussing how to pronounce a baby's name then that highlights a lifetime of confusion, mispelling and having to correct others for that child. It is bothersome. I know that from experience.

I gave my children easy names with no ambiguity.

bridgeofslides · 26/09/2021 22:01

Ave - align
Like the Bread character - how could you not! It's a lovely name though it's not a negative association more a fondly remembered cultural reference

WaitinginVain · 26/09/2021 21:59

Definitely Avva-line.

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Babynameq21 · 26/09/2021 21:59

As I thought - so many different opinions! I don't know it from Bread (showing my age!).

I first saw it in a book many years ago and had never heard of it so in my head it's pronounced AYVE-LIN (shortened to Ava) as that's how I read it at the time BUT I've since looked it up and apparently it is more like avva-lin which I'm not so much a fan of.

Wondering if I can just choose how its pronounced BUT also don't want to subject baby to a life of people pronouncing their name wrong so i think regretfully its a no-go!

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Xanadu58 · 26/09/2021 21:58

Avva line

ElizabethTudor · 26/09/2021 21:49

@DahliaMacNamara

4. Probably in a Liverpool accent.
Exactly this!
PattyPan · 26/09/2021 21:49

Av-uh-leen, like vaseline