Pronunciation of Clementine

[Chamallo]

We’re having a girl and my front runner at the moment is Clémentine (I know the accent won’t be on passport).

Would you pronounce this Cle-mon-teen or Clem-un-tine (long i / eye sound)? Or something else?

And if this was your name, would it bother you if people (including different family members) pronounced it differently?

Clementine unless told otherwise.

Why would your family members pronounce it differently?

It will be pronounced by people like the orange 🍊

Louis is pretty normal here pronounced Loo-ee - it’s my DS’s middle name.

Clem-un-tine.

I know a 8 year old with this name and she's Clemmy for short.

Usually -tine (rhymes with nine).

With the accent I’d be more likely to pronounce it the French way.

And I’d also say Clemen tine (of a fork).

@Tiggy321 , I can'timagine what part of the UK you were the British public will have heard of Prince Louis (pron. Lewey).

It's inevitable she'll get both pronunciations throughout her life.

Call her satsuma & be fine with it.

it will be butchered here & sound nothing like the pretty french pronunciation.

I have a French name, spelt the English way. I love my name, I like it the most when said the French way & the least when the middle vowel is dropped, but it's mostly shorted to the equivalent of Clem. My Dad used to go mad, he hated it being shortened. I hated him making a fuss about it. So if you don't like Clem, just don't choise it!

I'd say Clem on teen - but that's because I au Paired for a French Swiss couple who's dog was called the same :)

Klemmon-Tyne. It could be 'teen' but I say it like tyne.

With the accent, I’d assume French so Clay-mon-teen. Without accent, “oh my darling Clem-en-Tyne”

Just tell people how you want it pronounced (-teen, if you're spelliing it with the accent, otherwise it doesn't work) after which any family and friends have no excuse. Job done.

To rhyme with nine:

In a cavern, In a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner, forty-niner,
And his daughter, Clementine.

Chorus:
Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
Oh my darling Clementine,
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry Clementine.
Repeat chorus

Light she was, and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine;
Herring boxes without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.
Repeat chorus

Drove she ducklings to the water,
Every morning just at nine;
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell into the foaming brine.
Repeat chorus

Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles soft and fine;
But Alas! I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.
Repeat chorus

In a corner of the churchyard,
Where the myrtle boughs entwine,
Grow the roses in their poses,
Fertilized by Clementine.
Repeat chorus

Then the miner forty-niner,
Soon began to peak and pine,
Thought he oughter join his daughter,
Now he's with his clementine.
Repeat chorus

In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
Robed in garments soaked in brine.
Though in life I used to hug her,
Now she's dead, I'll draw the line.
Repeat chorus

How I missed her, how I missed her
How I missed my Clementine.
So I kissed her little sister,
And forgot my Clementine.
Repeat chorus

Now you Boy Scouts, there's a moral
To this little tale of mine.
Artificial respiration,
Would have saved my Clementine.

I have a 20 something DD named Clementine-very very rare back then.

She says Clem-en-tyne for pronunciation.

She does go by Clemmie but increasingly is using Clementine.

Very rarely gets the French pronunciation.

Her Brothers did/do lovingly call her Satsuma 😂🍊

Clemen TYNE in English

I would pronounce it Clemen-teen unless I was singing the song Oh my darling Clemen-tine.

It's a pretty name - however use of the French acute accent would mean it SHOULD be pronounced Clay men tine.

That feels very affected

Stick to the spelling without the accent and the pronunciation as per the my darling song.

Make sure you're happy with Clem and Clemmie as the inevitable nick names - I think both are lovely

Clem-un-tyne for the girls' name.

Clem-un-teen for the fruit

I don’t know the song. I would have pronounced it clem men Tyne which is also how I (clearly incorrectly) pronounce the fruit

If you are putting on that French acute accent, you are indicating you want it said with a French pronunciation- with the een ending. I would always generally pronounce it with -een anyway unless told otherwise.

SHOULD be pronounced Clay men tine. That feels very affected
To you. It doesn't really sound like 'Clay men tine'.

@Watchoutfortheslowaraf ,

clem-en-Tyne

Thanks for the effort to correct me but the accent means the first syllable SHOULD be pronounced Clay

Clem en teen