How do you pronounce Madeline?

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How do you pronounce Madeline?
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Sun, 03-12-2006 - 7:25pm
How do you pronounce Madeline?



  • Mad-uh-line (long I sound, like standing in a line or "online")
  • Mad-uh-lin (short i sound,


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Sun, 03-12-2006 - 9:33pm
I think I just dont understand your rhymes with things. I voted other. I hear it said in my head as Mad (like I the tv show Mad About You) uh (like uhh ya gotta be kiddin me) line (like I hate standing in line at Wal-Mart).
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Sun, 03-12-2006 - 9:43pm

Sorry, I thought the "long i" / "short i" concept was clear.


the first one should sound like "standing in a line"


the second should sound like the name Lynn




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Registered: 10-27-2005
Sun, 03-12-2006 - 10:03pm
Personally, I prefer Madeline to rhyme with the word 'line', Madeleine to end like Lynne (although I actually prefer the French pronunciation, closer to two syllables with a short E sound like the word 'lend' without the D, but getting that pronunciation in most of North America isn't too realistic), and of course Madelyn is also an acceptable spelling to get mad-uh-lin, though I don't like it nearly as much, myself. I've certainly come across Madeline meant to sound like Madeleine/Madelyn, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 8:09am

Thanks for your reply.



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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 9:10am

Well I think you already know my take on this one, but here Madeline is pronounced just as it looks (with the -line ending sound), and Mad-uh-lyn is spelled just as it is pronounced -- Madelyn (this seems to be more popular with the over-60/70 set ... I do have a 70-something great-aunt named Madelyn, and they get even "lazier" with the pronunciation and simply say Mad-lyn LOL). Madeline sounds a bit fresher and sweeter to me. ;)

~Kelli


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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 1:46pm
Madaline sounds boo-schwa to me.
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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 2:14pm

Thanks for your comment, but I'm really not sure I have any idea what you are talking about. It sounds "Boo-schwa"? I am totally baffled by this comment.


My only possible guess is that you mean bourgeois or bourgeoisie. In which case, I sort of understand your point, but I wasn't asking for opinions on the name, I just want to know how most people pronounce it.


If that's NOT what you meant, then I'm sorry but I have no other guess. I'm assuming "boo-schwa" has nothing to do with the pronounciation of Madeline.




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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 2:57pm

I'm sorry Annie, I guess I loked more at the "rhyme" part of the name then the sjort/long part. I'l be the first to admit I'm not smart like most poeple :). I just like this nmae bored and wanted to help but maybe i should stay away from the "pronounce" qustions.

P.s. cottle5 what does "boo-shwa" mean??

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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 3:09pm

that's okay! Sometimes it's hard to get across pronounciations on the internet, I thought you had a valid point. I actually tried to go back and edit my original poll after you posted to make it more clear, but it wouldn't save and I got frustrated and quit trying.


I too was baffled by "boo-shwa", but I THINK she means bourgeois, which is a french term pronounced "boorzhwah". It's a term that originated during the feudal times. Originally it just meant a free person who lived in a town, then it meant landowners, then it meant the ruling class. It was a term used negatively with some frequency by bohemians and Marxists to refer to the (capitalist) conservative upper class who were not revolutionaries. It still retains that negative connotation today, most of the time people who use it are referring to the stuffy rich types who are concerned mostly with money and prestige.




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Mon, 03-13-2006 - 11:50pm

ROFL ... love the boo-schwa/bourgeois commentary. ;)

This is also what I assumed was meant, and I've always thought it was funny that the term carries such a "stuffy, upperclass" connotation. Anyone who cared to look it up would know it originally meant townsman, or basically the middle class (as you mentioned, Annie), and also, apparently, a tendency toward mediocrity (which to me seems to be the exact opposite of what most people are trying to say when they use it LOL).

Of course, none of that has anything to do with the price of eggs (or in this case, the pronunciation of Madeline LOL). Anyway, thanks for the giggle, guys! ;)

~Kelli


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