I honestly am not sure what the correct pronunciation is. I pronounce it “line”. Does it matter which ? Thanks
I think the -leen is the more oldschool and British way and line is the way its likely to be read aloud, especially in the US where we’re used to [name]Caroline[/name] and so on.
I pronounce it with a “lynn” sound at the end.
Leen. i would never have thought to say it [name]Line[/name], it sounds all wrong to me. I’m American, for what that’s worth.
I say -leen. -line sounds weird to me, even though we spell [name]Caroline[/name] similarly and say -line with that one.
I pronounce it Evange-leen. I don’t think the [name]Line[/name] pronunciation has ever crossed my mind. I’m an American.
- [name]Athena[/name]
Personally I’ve always pronounced it with “Leen” because I thought it was prettier(:
Same as above.
It’s pronounced leen.
- leen, definitely.
I say it like E-van-juh-leen.
- leen, the line prn sounds awkward.
Yeahhhh… LEEN!
~[name]Jasmine[/name]
I say leen. I’ve never heard it pronounced line.
It’s pn -leen for sure. That’s how they say it in the [name]Princess[/name] and the Frog.
http://wiki.name.com/en/Evangeline
It’s definitely “leen”.
I probably would have pronounced it -line, but since [name]Evangeline[/name] [name]Lilly[/name] has become famous, i think most Americans would say it -leen now, thanks to her
I pronounce -leen too. -line sounds weird to me.
I don’t know who [name]Evangeline[/name] [name]Lilly[/name] is. I would give the credit to The [name]Princess[/name] & the Frog
It maybe new to the rest of the country but [name]Evangeline[/name] “ee-van-juh-leen” is a very old and well known name in the South thanks to a poem by [name]Henry[/name] Wadsworth [name]Longfellow[/name] written in the 1800s
I say Leen, although as a child I’d say [name]Line[/name].