How would you pronounce...

[turquoise88]

...Evelyn?

I love Ev-lin but not so keen on Eeev-lin/Eve/Evie or any other variation.

Will I constantly be correcting people on the pronunciation of DD2’s name?

We've a couple of Evelyn's in DH's (Irish family). They are both pronounced Ev-lyn.

"Except that Ever-Lyn is a different name altogether - Evelyn doesn’t have an r in it"

No one has said it has an r in it. People are writing how they pronounce it.

Ever Lin

No one has said it has an r in it. People are writing how they pronounce it.

But some people pronounce the r in ever. So when they read that back, it sounds very different to how those people intended it to sound. Which makes writing it down how you pronounce it kind of useless, huh?

Better to write "ev-uh-lin", then there's no ambiguity depending on the reader's location.

It's my daughter's name and we pronounce it Ev-lin...only since moving to England do the occasional person say Eve-Lyn but generally only need correcting once

But I can see where the Ev-uh-Lin comes from as saying Ev-Lyn quickly does sound like that I suppose

Ev-lin doesn't make sense to me tbh. There's an e in the middle, so it has to be eve-lin or ev-uh-lin/ev-eh-lin, surely?

But you don't pronounce the E on the end of Eve either🤔

Well, the name is pronounced Eev. Not Ev.

That's why I said "so it has to be eve-lin or ev-uh-lin".

Evelina is not eev-leena or ev-leena. It's ev-eh-leena. Would make sense for Evelyn to be the same.

That's Eev-Lin by us. We're in Cheshire btw.
I love the name pronounced Ever-lin but we decided against it as around here nobody would pronounce it like that. I think it depends where you are.

"But some people pronounce the r in ever. So when they read that back, it sounds very different to how those people intended it to sound. Which makes writing it down how you pronounce it kind of useless, huh?

Better to write "ev-uh-lin", then there's no ambiguity depending on the reader's location."

You're absolutely right. I can never work out whether people who claim to have no idea why anyone would put an r in a word like this when writing it phonetically (for them) are being deliberately obtuse to make a point or have genuinely never realised that a large proportion of the country have non-rhotic accents where car rhymes with ah. I've seen plenty on MN claim the latter!

I mean Evah lin

Sorry

Ev uh lin actually

Diego my point was most people do say Ev-uh-Lyn without even realising as it's pretty hard to say Ev-Lyn...I was just highlighting that no emphasis is put on the 'uh' sound