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HelpRe: pronunciation of Caroline
in reply to a message by Caroline
Yeah, I don't think of them as at all the same. Caroline doesn't sound hickish to me. Honestly, Carolyn sounds more hickish (or at least more "dumbed down") because it's taking a perfectly legitimate vowel sound ("EYE") and replacing it with a halfhearted schwa. I don't like when people do that to words! lol
I do know a Madeleine who pronounces it like Madelyn. Her parents have a British accent, so maybe that's why? Even so, "eine" is definitely not the same as "inn"!
If something has an e at the end, I'm pretty sure the vowel has to make a "real" sound. Like, "line" could be "l-eye-n" or maybe "l-ee-n", and "leine" can be "l-eye-n" but either way it's a distinctive sound and not an "ih" or an "uh".
I do know a Madeleine who pronounces it like Madelyn. Her parents have a British accent, so maybe that's why? Even so, "eine" is definitely not the same as "inn"!
If something has an e at the end, I'm pretty sure the vowel has to make a "real" sound. Like, "line" could be "l-eye-n" or maybe "l-ee-n", and "leine" can be "l-eye-n" but either way it's a distinctive sound and not an "ih" or an "uh".
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