Elinor or Eleanor?

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Which spelling do you prefer? :)

Eleanor

Eleanor

Eleanor

Definitely Eleanor.

It's on my shortlist, lovely name.

Eleanor!
That was on my list for dd, absolutely lovely name,

Eleanor

Eleanor

Lovely name

Eleanor.

It was on my shortlist for DD1 too. Lovely name.

Eleanor.

Or have you thought about.....Elena?

Eleanor

eleanor...............don't shorten it to Ellie, I don't like that

I like both, actually. Jane Austen uses Elinor in Sense and Sensibility.

Elena is lovely too.

Eleanor. It's my daughter's middle name, I love it!

Eleanor

Elinor

Eleanor. If you use the Elinor spelling, people will constantly get it wrong, and she'll have a lifetime of spelling it out.

Elinor

And don't worry about spelling confusion. All the Eleanors I know have problems with people spelling their name Elena.

Elinor (biased). It's an accepted alternative spelling and people either ask or I say ElinorwithanI

Elinor, because of Jane Austen and to me it seems the cleaner, clearer phonetic spelling as opposed to 'Ell-ee-an-or' - that spelling jars somewhat.

I think Eleanor looks nicer

It was years before I heard anyone say the name Elinor (as opposed to just seeing it on paper) and I hadn't realised that Elinor was prn the same as Eleanor. I used to think it was E-liner like bin liner or cruise liner.

ELEANOR

Eleanor

Eleanor (otherwise you'll always be correcting people)