[name]Love[/name] the name but back n forth on the spelling. Pronunciation would be mad-uh-lyn, so to avoid any mispronunciation, [name]Madeline[/name] is out…I like [name]Madeleine[/name] because of its original spelling, its so beautiful and classy. [name]Madelyn[/name], while it may be a little trendy, is still appealing and there would be absolutely no confusion on the pronunciation. YOUR PICKS!!! And please feel free to elaborate…THANKS EVERYONE!!
If you want the mad-uh-lyn pronunciation, then [name]Madelyn[/name] is the most intuitive. It is very trendy feeling to me though. I don’t see it aging well either.
[name]Madeline[/name] would’ve been a great compromise, but since it’s out, I’d got with [name]Madelyn[/name]. [name]One[/name] of my big pet peeves was having my name constantly mispronounced, and being “corrected” on how to say it. SMH. Drove me mad.
[name]Madelyn[/name] would be pronounced the way you like. [name]Madeleine[/name] is supposed to be pronounced ma-dah-[name]LEN[/name], or mad-[name]LEN[/name] when speaking fast.
[name]Madeleine[/name] appears slightly classier in my opinion, if that matters to you.
There are so many [name]Madelyn[/name]/[name]Madeleine[/name]/[name]Madeline[/name]'s running around, and I don’t know of any of them that pronounce it “line” instead of “lynn.” So, at least where I live, I think it would be pronounced “[name]Lynn[/name]” regardless of how you spelled it.
Hmmm you make an interesting point. I don’t know ANY Madelines so I don’t have that reference point. OK, so assuming the way I want it pronounced and no restrictions on the spelling, which do like?
[name]Madeleine[/name] by a million. It was my Da’s granny’s name and she pronounced it Mad-uh-leen? Hm.