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HelpRe: Madeleine
in reply to a message by Danno
I've known many people with the name Madeline/ Madeleine. Two of them I was very close to. One pronounced it -lien and the other was -len.
The Madeline -lien I know mostly goes by Maddy and her sister is Genevieve but mostly goes by Gigi. They were named after the children's book characters. I didn't read the books as a kid but I loved the animated TV show - it was one of my favorites. I spent a lot of time with Maddy and Gigi as a kid since their dad was my father's friend from childhood and they lived nearby us.
I think that it would be easy to not give a Madeline/ Madeleine any nns. The Madeleine I know who pronounces it with the -len ending is like an aunt to me and she has never used a nn, only her full name.
My aunt Madeleine is an interesting person who has a very dramatic flair and will call you darling and is always fashionable in a very French way. I truthfully never asked but I suspect she is probably mostly of French ancestry, either that or she is just in love with French culture - she doesn't have a French accent so I doubt she was born in France. She always reminded me of Edith Piaf and Coco Chanel - well at least how they are portrayed. Before she got esophageal cancer she used to always smoke up a storm. About a year or two before the cancer Madeleine had retired to Vietnam with her best friend Richard "Killer" since there is so much good French and Vietnamese food and your money goes a long way there. I haven't seen her in years even though they moved back to the US because of her cancer, which is gone now, but I did run into Killer more recently - if you are wondering his nn was originally Killer the Klutz because he almost accidentally killed either himself or someone else, it got shortened to Killer by the time I was born. I will always remember the time my sister and I were in downtown Seattle yelling up to their apartment window "Killer! Killer!" until we suddenly realized that wasn't a very appropriate thing to yell at the top of your lungs, then we started yelling Richard instead.
Killer and Madeleine were always the life of the party and all the parties I attended as a child had them there. I went to more crazy parties as a toddler and as an elementary school kid than the rest of my life combined although there were some good parties when I was in middle school that I remember well. For my first or second birthday Richard and Madeleine gave me a mink shawl/ blanket thing, I always thought that it was bear fur for some reason and I would wear it often on cool evenings out on my deck. I was an odd kid - I'd come home from school put on one of my slips and my mink shawl then dance to my parents punk rock music or watch TV or draw.
Sorry I got a bit reminiscent there. I get that way especially at night. Madeline/ Madeleine is a name that has so many good memories attached to it.
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The Madeline -lien I know mostly goes by Maddy and her sister is Genevieve but mostly goes by Gigi. They were named after the children's book characters. I didn't read the books as a kid but I loved the animated TV show - it was one of my favorites. I spent a lot of time with Maddy and Gigi as a kid since their dad was my father's friend from childhood and they lived nearby us.
I think that it would be easy to not give a Madeline/ Madeleine any nns. The Madeleine I know who pronounces it with the -len ending is like an aunt to me and she has never used a nn, only her full name.
My aunt Madeleine is an interesting person who has a very dramatic flair and will call you darling and is always fashionable in a very French way. I truthfully never asked but I suspect she is probably mostly of French ancestry, either that or she is just in love with French culture - she doesn't have a French accent so I doubt she was born in France. She always reminded me of Edith Piaf and Coco Chanel - well at least how they are portrayed. Before she got esophageal cancer she used to always smoke up a storm. About a year or two before the cancer Madeleine had retired to Vietnam with her best friend Richard "Killer" since there is so much good French and Vietnamese food and your money goes a long way there. I haven't seen her in years even though they moved back to the US because of her cancer, which is gone now, but I did run into Killer more recently - if you are wondering his nn was originally Killer the Klutz because he almost accidentally killed either himself or someone else, it got shortened to Killer by the time I was born. I will always remember the time my sister and I were in downtown Seattle yelling up to their apartment window "Killer! Killer!" until we suddenly realized that wasn't a very appropriate thing to yell at the top of your lungs, then we started yelling Richard instead.
Killer and Madeleine were always the life of the party and all the parties I attended as a child had them there. I went to more crazy parties as a toddler and as an elementary school kid than the rest of my life combined although there were some good parties when I was in middle school that I remember well. For my first or second birthday Richard and Madeleine gave me a mink shawl/ blanket thing, I always thought that it was bear fur for some reason and I would wear it often on cool evenings out on my deck. I was an odd kid - I'd come home from school put on one of my slips and my mink shawl then dance to my parents punk rock music or watch TV or draw.
Sorry I got a bit reminiscent there. I get that way especially at night. Madeline/ Madeleine is a name that has so many good memories attached to it.
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Favorite Names:
Dorothea, Marguerite, Aurora, Fiona, Leona, Artemis, Vivian, Hazel, Clara, Luna, Serafina, Adelina, Maeve, Iris, Callisto, Citrina, Ariana, Rosaria
Ciaran, Rowan, Xavier, Tristan, Adrian, Cedric, Cedar, Arthur, Brendan, Connor, Teagan, Magnus, Malcolm, Julian, Gavin, Gryphon, Finn
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