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I say emma-line.

There's a pretty tedious song, something like 'Emma, Emmaline', something to fill the line until you get to 'that silver screen'.

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And, not tedious at all, an AA Milne poem:
Emmeline
Has not been seen
For more than a week. She slipped between
The two tall trees at the end of the green;
We all ran after her: "Emmeline,
We didn't mean ...
We only said that your hands weren't clean"

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Surely your English teacher could be shown the poem, at least, even if she doesn't like country music? Good luck!

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EMMA-leen here.:)

Like Emily with an N on the end

I prefer "EM-uh-leen"

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I've also heard it pronounced "EM-uh-lin" - similar to how Madeline is sometimes pronounced "MAD-uh-lin"

I say -leen. I really don't like the name when the ending is pronounced like "line."

I say EMM-e-leen.

Different people pronounce it different ways. I personally prefer the LEEN pronunciation.

Either

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This is the name my friend wants to use for her future child and we have had many a debate over the pronunciation- I would say "em-ma-LEEN," and she'd say "em-ma-LINE." Now I'm so used to her pronunciation that I say it that way, too. But I think judging from the other responses on here it can go either way.

I'm normal (but that may be debateable) and I pronounce it Emma-leen.

I pronounce it EM-ə-leen (basically like EMMA-leen).

This message was edited 12/12/2011, 2:48 PM

I pronounce it Emma-line, like the word line. I think that's how most people in the US would say it.

I say it with "line" rhyming with wine

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I also prefer the spelling Emmaline

I usually prefer the -line ending names with a long I pronunciation, like how your English teacher is doing it, but for some reason in Emmeline's case I use em-ma-leen.

I pronounce it somewhere between 'emma-leen' and 'emma-lyn'

I would've said EM-uh-line. But I've never actually met or heard of one.

I pronounce it Emma-leen

Well I'm sort of a normal person and I say "Emma-line" (like "walk the line").