Anonymous
Post 08/03/2022 20:21     Subject: More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Ivy!
Anonymous
Post 08/03/2022 19:31     Subject: Re:More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do you feel about the song Oh my darling, Clementine? Because that will come up.


Uh, why is this relevant? That’s a totally different name.


I take it you haven’t spent time with groups of elementary school kids who play rhyming games with each other’s names. It will come up even if the child pronounces her name with the long e ending.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 23:52     Subject: Re:More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here: It's pronounced Emme-lean.


I don’t know how Emme is pronounced.

I like Ivy.

I also love Elodie which is suggested above, and would add Iris.


As far as I know, "Emme" is pronounced just like the letter, M. But who knows. "Emme" is not a phonetic spelling.


So Emme - LEAN is a two syllable name like Emlean?

Wouldn’t Em be the obvious spelling if you’re trying to spell it phonetically?



If we still don't know what the pronunciation is on a four-page thread discussing the name, that's a problem.


+1
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 18:59     Subject: Re:More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here: It's pronounced Emme-lean.


I don’t know how Emme is pronounced.

I like Ivy.

I also love Elodie which is suggested above, and would add Iris.


As far as I know, "Emme" is pronounced just like the letter, M. But who knows. "Emme" is not a phonetic spelling.


So Emme - LEAN is a two syllable name like Emlean?

Wouldn’t Em be the obvious spelling if you’re trying to spell it phonetically?



If we still don't know what the pronunciation is on a four-page thread discussing the name, that's a problem.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 18:54     Subject: Re:More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Every Ivy I've met is a brat.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 17:15     Subject: Re:More names - Ivy or Emmeline
I really like Ivy. I find Emmeline very confusing.

Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 14:45     Subject: Re:More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here: It's pronounced Emme-lean.


I’ve always heard it pronounced Emme-LINE (I’ve met a couple Emmelines and Adelines and they all pronounced it with a long I sound). If you plan to pronounce it differently I think that would lead to a lot of correcting down the road.


Hunh. I would have thought it was Emma-line.

Go with Emmelene and your kid will not hate you.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 02:02     Subject: More names - Ivy or Emmeline
Emmeline (Emme-lean) was on our list too, and I adore the name Ivy, so you can’t go wrong here OP. I wouldn’t carastrophize about pronunciation it is not the end of the world to correct someone.