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Collin looks like the ln Collins after an s-job. It doesn't happen where I live, though there are quite a few Colin people around, not all of them grandfathers. Until General Powell became a world figure, I'd never heard either one pronounced as Coal-in, and it still seems very strange and counter-intuitive. So, here in South Africa the spelling doesn't matter; elsewhere, I suppose it would be more logical to use a double consonant to indicate a shorter preceding vowel, but there isn't that much logic available to the general public, so probably anything goes.