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No clue what Americans might think, but here in South Africa we're perfectly used to Magdalene, Magdalene etc shortening to Daleen, which sounds much the same because we don't pronounce the r, or not in English anyway.

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Personally, I don't have strong feelings about Daleen either way, but I do find Arlene, Darlene, Marlene etc to be rather down-market.