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Monday, August 3, 2009

Posted by Bird @ 7:26 pm CDT
Filed under: Questions . . .

Please leave a comment telling me how you would pronounce the name Evangeline. Here are your options:

A) Evange-line (the last syllable rhymes with wine)
B) Evange-lean (last syllable rhymes with mean)
C) Evange-lynn (last syllable rhymes with win)
D) None of the above

Please don't read other people's responses and let them sway you. I want to know what you think. Don't look it up; just give me your gut feeling on it.

Please respond with the way you'd pronounce the name and what state you're from (or country if you're not in the USA).

Thanks!

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Comments on "Evangeline":

1. Jared - 08/03/2009 7:29 pm CDT

B) Eh-VAN-juh-leen

TX/TN

2. Bird - 08/03/2009 7:45 pm CDT

TX/TN

Two-headed monster!

:gwah:

3. Brian - Austin - 08/03/2009 7:50 pm CDT

B

mainly TX

4. Andrew - 08/03/2009 8:22 pm CDT

B

Texas

5. nhe - 08/03/2009 8:31 pm CDT

definitely B..........and I love Eva too for short - giving the E the long A sound.

6. Mara - 08/03/2009 8:36 pm CDT

B - although I think I'm influenced by the actress on Lost. I think that is how her name is pronounced. I'm from IL though if that has any influence and now live in the Eastern US.

7. Lynn H - 08/03/2009 8:56 pm CDT

A) Evange-line

North Carolina

8. Inklingstar - 08/03/2009 9:18 pm CDT

B. Sounds right to me. I'm from Washington, and we don't have many of those names up here.

9. Enkurio - 08/03/2009 9:25 pm CDT

A) Evange-line

Currently in Texas - raised in Alaska.

10. Scott Miller - 08/03/2009 9:26 pm CDT

B
Kansas

11. Evan - 08/03/2009 9:28 pm CDT

I go with B) as well as a transplanted midwesterner. But I don't think geography is the main issue in cases of names. I think it is based on people you know with the name. I think the Lost actress is the only person I know of with the name Evangeline, and I'm probably influenced by the way she pronounces it.

I have a similar name that gives me a lot of problems. The woman's name Andrea. Do you pronounce it?

A) An' dree ah (first syllable rhymes with man)
B) On' dree ah (first syllable rhymes with con)
C) An dray' ah (A) with emphasis on middle syll)
D) On dray' ah (B) with emphasis on middle syll)

I know three different women with this name and they pronounce their names three different ways. One each of A, B & D. Which has lead me to periodically use the wrong pronunciation with each of them when my brain can't adjust fast enough.

12. Bird - 08/03/2009 9:32 pm CDT

Evan, good points. I was thinking of the name Andrea earlier this evening as well.

13. Nate - 08/03/2009 9:36 pm CDT

B

Omaha, Nebraska

14. salguod - 08/03/2009 9:43 pm CDT

For me, B barely edges out A with C in a distant third.

Columbus OH

(FWIW - I think I'm influenced by the movie Nanny McFee)

15. diane - 08/03/2009 9:43 pm CDT

Choice B. Evange-lean.

I live right outside of Washington DC originally from Connecticut.

16. joe helt - 08/03/2009 10:02 pm CDT

definitely rhymes with lean.

northern Indiana (with strong Kentucky heritage)

-joe

17. Laurie M. - 08/03/2009 10:25 pm CDT

18. Laurie M. - 08/03/2009 10:26 pm CDT

Oops, I'm from California, raised in the L.A. area, last 17 years in northern CA.

19. Karl - 08/03/2009 10:59 pm CDT

(b) Evange-lean

Grew up (and currently reside) in Virginia, parents from Michigan and Brooklyn NY/Connecticut. My pronunciations are a blend of Virginia southern, midwestern Michican, with a bit of yankified NY/Connecticut. Plus whatever I've picked up elsewhere along the way.

20. Doug - 08/03/2009 11:00 pm CDT

B.

Georgia, born to Yankee parents. When I read about your daughter, I thought that's how it was pronounced, but I remember being unsure. Think I've heard it several ways.

Love the name, though...

21. Anne - 08/03/2009 11:01 pm CDT

C.

Grew up in Georgia but currently live in Hawaii.

22. Sherry Early - 08/03/2009 11:34 pm CDT

Evangeline
Will not drink wine.
(Cause she's really Baptist!)

I'm from Texas (TAAAxus)

23. Sherry Early - 08/03/2009 11:36 pm CDT

How did Longfellow pronounce it?

24. Alex Costa - 08/03/2009 11:47 pm CDT

B, originally from Massachusetts, currently in Columbus, OH

25. III - 08/03/2009 11:58 pm CDT

B

Texas/Mexico

26. G. Frederick - 08/04/2009 12:44 am CDT

I immediately chose B. I am from Missouri that's pronounced Missouree. Only the politicians and those who want it to be a cheer for the State U pronounce it Missourah.

27. Jared - 08/04/2009 6:22 am CDT

So, Bird, how do y'all pronounce it?

28. Daniel Ross - 08/04/2009 7:50 am CDT

B. From Tennessee, live in Indiana

29. Josh - 08/04/2009 7:58 am CDT

I'm from the Upper Mid-West (have spent significant time in Nebraska, Iowa, northern Illinois, and Wisconsin). I have a cousing named Evangeline who was born in Iowa and raised primarily in Minnesota and Illinois. She goes by
C) Evange-lynn (last syllable rhymes with win).

Well, actually, she goes bye Evie, but that's not the point, is it?

30. Bird - 08/04/2009 8:07 am CDT

How did Longfellow pronounce it?

He's dead. We can't ask him. ;-)

So, Bird, how do y'all pronounce it?

C. Evange-lynn.

I'm finding on here, and on the Net in general, that most people pronounce it B (including the chick from Lost). We're in the minority, no big deal.

A couple of peeps on here have mentioned the C pronounciation at least.

31. jen - 08/04/2009 8:37 am CDT

B, but I took French in HS & college. I spent the past 25 years in Northern VA (DC suburbs).

32. Barry Simmons - 08/04/2009 8:53 am CDT

B - Mississippi

33. Damon - 08/04/2009 8:58 am CDT

B) Eh-VAN-juh-leen

I'm parroting Jared, as we bought our van 9 years ago in the town of Ville Platte, LA...dealers name was Courtesy of Evangeline, and "B" is the way they pronounced it.

34. Kenny - 08/04/2009 8:58 am CDT

B

MI/TN/OK/MO/IN

35. Jared - 08/04/2009 9:02 am CDT

Bird, you named your baby wrong.

36. Jared - 08/04/2009 9:02 am CDT

On a somewhat related note: I have no idea if my publisher's name is pronounced Kreh-gull or Kree-gull.
I've been saying the latter.

37. gretchen from lifenut - 08/04/2009 9:20 am CDT

I have a 3yo niece named Evangeline.

They pronounce it the "rhymes with mean" way. I think it's the British way, because my BIL is a Brit.

We considered the name for our 5th child, who turned out to be a boy named Joel.

When we batted Evangenline back and forth, my husband and I always pronounced it the "rhymes with wine" way, which I prefer.

We, along with my ILs with little EvangeLEEN, live in CO.

38. Jeff - 08/04/2009 9:23 am CDT

E) However my wife pronounces it.

39. Bird - 08/04/2009 9:37 am CDT

Bird, you named your baby wrong.

Your mama named you wrong.

:gbird:

40. Scott - 08/04/2009 9:58 am CDT

A)

North Carolina.

41. jenny - 08/04/2009 11:11 am CDT

B. Evange-LEAN. (I'm from California...and the Evange-LEAN I know from church is an elderly lady originally from TX.)

42. Luke - 08/04/2009 11:40 am CDT

A) with an emphasis on the "juh" and "lean"

Oklahoma

43. Quaid - 08/04/2009 1:32 pm CDT

I would go with B, but I could easily slip into C.

From Houston and now in Dallas.

44. Cara - 08/04/2009 1:46 pm CDT

B - I'm from Canada

45. G. Frederick - 08/04/2009 1:46 pm CDT

Evan,
as to the pronunciation of Andrea, did you know that your C is the correct pronunciation of the Italian name of Andrew?

46. Terry - 08/04/2009 4:39 pm CDT

B.

Virginia

47. dani - 08/04/2009 5:23 pm CDT

A) With a Southern drawl - Evan-juh-line - emphasis on the "juh" and a very drawn out long "i" sound. Invokes thoughts of Gone with the Wind.

Thanks for sharing how you say it. From Texas.

48. Pigwotflies - 08/05/2009 4:28 am CDT

B)

It's a very pretty name and makes me think of Beatrice and Evangeline from the costume drama 'The House of Elliot' which was on BBC1 on Sunday evenings when I was a teenager (I think). It was all about a pair of sisters setting up a fashion house in 1920s London. Ah, the dresses! As that might suggest, I'm in the UK.

49. Michele - 08/05/2009 9:19 am CDT

From California: B

50. Michele - 08/05/2009 9:24 am CDT

From California: B

51. Manders - 08/05/2009 11:08 am CDT

Rhymes with "lean". I'm from Texas, but my mom's a Midwesterner, if that makes any difference.

52. Stacy - 08/05/2009 2:28 pm CDT

B)
Oregon

53. Chestertonian Rambler - 08/05/2009 4:43 pm CDT

B, but possibly A too.

TX

54. Rong - 08/06/2009 7:36 am CDT

55. Bob Sacamento - 08/06/2009 8:50 am CDT

B

southeast U.S.

56. Melinda Kopp - 08/06/2009 10:54 pm CDT

a
mississippi

57. shaun - 08/06/2009 11:04 pm CDT

A
TX

58. damien - 08/07/2009 8:09 am CDT

A
maryland (born and raised)

59. Greg - 08/07/2009 8:41 pm CDT

B - Indiana now, but raised in Texas

60. Paul Wilkinson - 08/10/2009 9:52 pm CDT

I only knew one person with this name, and it was "B"

~Ontario, Canada

61. allison - 08/17/2009 10:43 pm CDT

A

From Texas

62. ToilingAnt - 08/19/2009 11:47 am CDT

I'd pick C. I'm originally from Texas (Houston area) but now live in Louisiana.

63. Evangeline - 01/19/2011 2:28 pm CST

My parents named me after the poem and they pronounce it Evangelynn rhyming with win.

64. Shrode - 01/19/2011 8:16 pm CST

Wow, a year and a half later, and a post is brought back from the dead.

I love it!

65. Bird - 01/19/2011 10:11 pm CST

Yes, and from an Evangeline who pronounces it right!

:gbird:

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