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in reply to a message by Perrine
Eileen sounds like eye-LEEN or EYE-leen to me, so I don't see the point of using Aylin unless you're Turkish.
Eileen was more popular than Aileen, I think - I certainly knew and knew of more Eileen people than Aileen people - so its fall was harder and further. I find both names unlovely, but I don't enjoy -een or -ine names in general. I'd rather have been Aileen than Eileen, simply because I really don't like names starting with (what sounds like) I!
Aileen sounds like AYleen or ay-LEEN to me, though I did know someone named Aileen who pronounced it like Eileen. This was because there was a family tradition of giving children A- names: this Aileen had a sister Annette and children Alan and Antoinette. Annette had Anthony, Amanda, Richard and Angus. Presumably she lost her nerve after showing originality with Richard.
Aline, however pronounced, seems incomplete to me.
Eileen was more popular than Aileen, I think - I certainly knew and knew of more Eileen people than Aileen people - so its fall was harder and further. I find both names unlovely, but I don't enjoy -een or -ine names in general. I'd rather have been Aileen than Eileen, simply because I really don't like names starting with (what sounds like) I!
Aileen sounds like AYleen or ay-LEEN to me, though I did know someone named Aileen who pronounced it like Eileen. This was because there was a family tradition of giving children A- names: this Aileen had a sister Annette and children Alan and Antoinette. Annette had Anthony, Amanda, Richard and Angus. Presumably she lost her nerve after showing originality with Richard.
Aline, however pronounced, seems incomplete to me.
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