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

162 replies

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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zurala · 12/07/2022 21:30

Mad-uh-len. I'm in the south east

onlythreenow · 12/07/2022 21:29

Maddalin - New Zealand

anderosonnmj · 12/07/2022 21:27

Madda-lane. I'm from the SE.

DeadbeatYoda · 12/07/2022 21:25

Mad-ur-lenn
Southerner

Fivebeanchilli · 12/07/2022 21:16

Madeleine I would pronounce madd-uh-lain.
Madeline I would pronounce madd-uh-lin.
But I pronounce both Emmeline and Clementine with an -ine sound at the end so I wouldn't think it was weird if you pn it like that.
But I do think she'll have to constantly tell people when she first meets them.

MayEye · 12/07/2022 21:12

Where I live in Ireland it would be pronounced Ma-da-leen just to throw another pronunciation into the mix 😁

MassiveSalad22 · 12/07/2022 21:07

I’m from the south west

MassiveSalad22 · 12/07/2022 21:06

Madda-lin or madda-line depending… not sure ok what, I guess how the person is introduced.

A friend just had a Madeline and I just read it as made-line.

PennyMordor · 12/07/2022 20:55

LIke the cakes.

Bouledeneige · 12/07/2022 20:53

Mad-a-len - North London

castleview97 · 12/07/2022 20:46

Mad-eh-lenn, but then I like French names

Cervinia · 12/07/2022 20:45

Mad-a-lain West Yorkshire.

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/07/2022 20:45

barelyfunctional · 12/07/2022 20:41

Madeleine is Mad-uh-LIN
Madeline is Mad-uh-LINE

It is not.

The latter is just a simplified Anglo spelling of a French name.

AlwaysLatte · 12/07/2022 20:44

Madda-Lain but maybe that's because I make the little sponge cakes with that name and have always pronounced them that way.

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/07/2022 20:44

MA-dah-lin

In French it’s more MAH-da-LEN - you hardly here the middle syllable - it’s closer to 2 syllables than 3 - and the end is different.

All the British ones I know are known as Maddy day to day

HappyHappyHermit · 12/07/2022 20:42

Mad uh lyn - SW

barelyfunctional · 12/07/2022 20:41

Madeleine is Mad-uh-LIN
Madeline is Mad-uh-LINE

HappyGoDucky · 12/07/2022 20:40

Londoner- Mad-eh- linn

The movie madeline was pronounced Mad-eh- line.
So I'd go for this spelling if it's what you want.

winnieanddaisy · 12/07/2022 20:39

Madalane. Also from the NW

woolwinder · 12/07/2022 20:38

Anxiernie · 12/07/2022 20:15

I would say Mad-uh-lin, but my brain really wants to say Mad-uh-lane

Mine wants to say Mad -eh-lane

Shinyandnew1 · 12/07/2022 20:35

Mad-uh-len

south east

jmh740 · 12/07/2022 20:34

My best frie d as a child was madeline we pronounced it mad uh lin in Lancashire

PaniDomu · 12/07/2022 20:34

Maddalen

Magdalena is nicer.

chubbachub · 12/07/2022 20:32

The first one I read as madda-lane. The second spelling I read as madda-lin

No idea why.
Central scotland

CharlotteOH · 12/07/2022 20:31

Maddalin. From London.

But if I was talking to someone posh I’d probably automatically say Madday-LANE.