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HelpRe: Walterine, Geraldine, Ernestine
in reply to a message by Murasaki
Catherine and Geraldine probably rhyme in Polish, but they don't in English, where we normally rhyme Catherine with "in" or "tin" but rhyme Geraldine with "dean" or "bean". :)
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English pronounciation is not my forte, but I still see a small difference only between the 2 names, it's basically -in vs. -een which still is too rhymey for a combo. But I might be not getting it.
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Don't know if this affects your perception, but the reason they don't sound rhymey to me is that they're stressed on different syllables. CATH-(e)-rin ger-al-DEEN.
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Well..
the reason they don't rhyme for me is because it's CATH-r(schwa)n GER-al-deen (or sometimes dine, depending on my fancy).
the reason they don't rhyme for me is because it's CATH-r(schwa)n GER-al-deen (or sometimes dine, depending on my fancy).
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