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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It’s more phonetic; we don’t say the O in Jackson/Allison/Emerson but it sounds more like a short I sound like in pin or kin.[/b]

So Alysyn, Jacksyn it comes to be but is also thought to be kreeightyve and youneek.
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What?

My sister's name is Allison and my son's name is Jackson. We do not pronounce either name with a short i ("in/yn") sound at the end.

We pronounce Allison more like "Alla-sun" and Jackson is pronounced exactly as it appears-- "Jack-son."

We travel a lot, and the only place I've ever heard Allison or Jackson pronounced with  short-i sound  ("in/yn") has been in Texas and Georgia. No one else anywhere in the US, UK, Canada, Spain, Germany, or New Zealand (places we travel often) has ever pronounced these names with an "in/yn" sound. Not once in the DC area have I heard these names pronounced with a short-i sound. [/quote]

You obviously don’t pay attention. You probably also don’t hear people saying Laura as Lau-ra vs Lore-a.[/quote]

I pay pretty close attention seeing that both Allison and Jackson live in my home and I am responsible for their care (Allison is an adult with a developmental disability, so she lives with me). I interact with a rather large number of people who use Allison and Jackson's names, and everyone in this area pronounces them correctly, with a "sun/son" sound.

Phonetically, it does not make sense to pronounce the names with a short-i sound, just as it does not make sense to pronounce "can" and "kin," nor "pen" and "pin" identically. They have different vowels.

If you want your child's name pronounced with a short-i sound, use the spelling Jacksyn or Jacksin. Jackson and Jacksyn aren't pronounced the same way.[/quote]

And yet, [b]plenty of midwesterners[/b] do pronounce ‘can’ as ‘kin’ or ‘ken.’  English is alive, baby! Spellings change. Your spelling now was someone else’s kreative spelling. There are words spelled differently now than when I was a child in the 70s. I don’t see any reason to disparage people who opt to spell Madison with -syn — whether they are being kreative or phonetic.[/quote]

This Midwesterner says don't pin this on us. Or do you mean Iowa?
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Michigan, for example.[/quote]

Sorry, haven't heard it. Western part of the state or rural?
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Detroit metro area … all the dang time. Also discussed in college linguistics class.[/quote]

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