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Colin/Collin
Do you think the spelling of Colin/Collin changes its pronunciation? For example, if you were looking for the Caul-in pronunciation and not the Coal-in pronunciation, what spelling would you use?
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I pronounce both CAUL-in.
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This probably isn't very helpful but, in Australia, we would never say Caul-in, no matter how you spelled the name. I like Colin though =)
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How would you say it? I have only heard Caul-in and Coal-in.
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I think Collin looks better but both ways are supposed to be pronounced KAHL-in.
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I don't think the spelling changes the pronunciation
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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.
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Well, to make absolute sure that the name was pronounced like Collins, I'd use two l's. Colin I have never really liked precisely because it's impossible to know how it is pronounced, because both ways are accepted, and the one way sounds like colon.
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Never heard it pronounced Caul-in before, no matter how you spell it. If you wanted Coal-in, I'd do Colin, but the only time I've heard it pronounced that way is Colin Powell. I definitely wouldn't want to pronounce it like colon. lol
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Funny thing is, Colin Powell is supposed to be pronounced CAUL-in, but lots of people mispronounced it in his life, so he gave up and went with COAL-in. But that's not really the correct pronunciation of his name.

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You've never heard caul-in? Maybe I didn't describe the pronunciation correctly because that's pretty much the only way I have heard it besides the way Colin Powell pronounces it. It sounds like Colin Firth, Colin Ferrell, Colin Hanks, etc.
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Right, well I assume you mean CAH-lin. The word caul I pronounce CAWL. So I'm not sure if you're saying CAW-lin or you pronounce caul like CAHL. Either way must be an accent difference. I've never heard CAW-lin, if that's what you're going for. :)

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In my accent, CAH-lin and CAWL-in are the same. "call" and "caul" are pronounced the same.

This message was edited 1/30/2016, 11:43 AM

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Hi !!!I don't know how pronounce Colin.I think COH-leen.I don't know... I use this pronounce but I'm not a English-speaker XDByeeee
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