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How do you pronounce this name & where are you from?

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Violetandpurple · 12/07/2022 20:07

Madeleine -
alao is this how you would naturally spell it or would you use Madeline.
just curious if we’d be forever correcting pronunciation and spelling.

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Qwertysfine · 22/07/2022 03:11

Virgin - I don't understand your point

Wilburisagirl · 22/07/2022 02:51

Mad-a-len

Australia.

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Princessoftheuniverse · 22/07/2022 02:35

QuebecBagnet
Madda-lin is about the closest I can spell it phonetically. Am from the north of England.

Me too . I’d spell it Madeleine.

Qwertysfine · 22/07/2022 02:14

Use another name😔

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 22/07/2022 01:55

Mahd-eh-layne

Scots.

Berlinlover · 22/07/2022 01:24

Mad-leen
I’m from Ireland

FergusSingsTheBluess · 22/07/2022 00:41

Mad er LEN

tkwal · 22/07/2022 00:30

Ma-Da-lain

Penfelyn · 22/07/2022 00:26

Madd-uh-lenn
France

Blackberrybunnet · 21/07/2022 13:47

Mad-uh-layn. Scottish.

Gottoomuchgoingon · 20/07/2022 21:35

sageandbasil · 12/07/2022 20:10

Maddalin South Wales

Same

Jewelanemone · 20/07/2022 19:54

Madd-uh-len.

Devon, now Surrey.

mistygem · 20/07/2022 19:49

Mad-LEHN - that's how I learnt in Croatia.

Changechangychange · 20/07/2022 19:20

Ma-de-line is German to me - I would always say “Madda-lin” in the UK.

Maddiehere · 20/07/2022 19:15

ihavenocats · 20/07/2022 16:01

I prefer Madalin too. What about

Avaline ? or Adaline?

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I'd pronounce those as Av-uh-leen and Add-a-leen (Irish)🤔

chocolateoranges33 · 20/07/2022 19:01

Mad uh lin - sourh coast

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 20/07/2022 18:57

MAD-lun. Or MAD-layn. Depends how they were introduced to me. Yorkshire but lived in the South a long time.

KezzabellaB · 20/07/2022 18:52

Mad-a-laine

SiobhanSharpe · 20/07/2022 18:52

The first one i would pronounce Mad-uh-lane, the second Mad a line. Prefer the first.
London born, lived abroad a lot, now living in Cambridge. RP-ish accent.

ChagSameachDoreen · 20/07/2022 18:49

Madlin. Liverpool.

PinkCheetah · 20/07/2022 18:46

Mad-uh-line
London

rightonthyme · 20/07/2022 17:03

Violetandpurple · 12/07/2022 20:13

Mad-uh-line is the pronunciation we like but if she’d forever get mad uh lin I feel like we should avoid it which would be a shame as it’s a very pretty name

This is how I say it (SW England)

SteakExpectations · 20/07/2022 16:47

Madeleine - Mad-uh-lane

Madeline - Mad-uh-lin, unless corrected to Mad-uh-line

Skelligsfeathers · 20/07/2022 16:43

Mad- uh-kin