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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its not. Madeline is pronounced mad-e- LINE like you said. Madeleine, Madelyn and  probably lots of other spelling variations are pronounced with Lynn ending. Like you, I prefer the name Madeline but it is often mispronounced. [/quote]

Nope.

For the etymologists among us, Madeline really SHOULD be pronounced MAD-uh-lyn, not MAD-uh-line.  This is because it is a French name originally spelled Madeleine, which, in French, is pronounced mad-uh-LEHN, and is then Americanized to MAD-uh-lin.  The spelling Madeline would be pronounced (according to its French roots) as mad-uh-LEEN, which would, again, be Americanized to MAD-uh-lin.  See Jacqueline, Catherine, Jessamine.  The "English" pronounciation MAD-uh-line is actually a mistake taken from the Madeline books, in which the MAD-uh-line pronunciation was used to create a rhyming scheme.[/quote]

Madeline and Madeleine are different names. Yes Madeline is derived from Madeleine- but it is a variation pronounced MadeLINE. (Like Caroline)[/quote]

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