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ArchivesRe: Top 225 Girls' Names on my 2022 spellings combined list, USA
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
Combining Adeline with Adalynn pushes them both into top 10. I know Adalynn is never pronounced with a -line ending but sometimes Adeline is pronounced like -lin like the ending of Catherine. There's no right way but that one does get a fair jump in the rankings when combined.
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Yes, that's one of the hard decisions. I reason that Adeline has been "stuck" with the "line" pronunciation because of the fame of the song "Sweek Adeline", and that was recently reinforced by the 2015 movie "The Age of Adaline", where the "line" pronunciation was used. So I reasoned there probably aren't many Adelines or Adalines who use the "lynn" pronunciation.
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