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[Opinions] Re: Walterine, Geraldine, Ernestine

by Murasaki (lady murasaki)

11/28/2008, 6:32 AM

in reply to a message by Tippins

I like the Clara ones, the others not so much. Catherine Geraldine is way too rhymey.

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +3

11/28/2008, 9:31 AM

Catherine and Geraldine probably rhyme in Polish, but they don't in English, where we normally rhyme Catherine with "in" or "tin" but rhyme Geraldine with "dean" or "bean". :)

- Murasaki (lady murasaki) +2

11/28/2008, 12:12 PM

English pronounciation is not my forte, but I still see a small difference only between the 2 names, it's basically -in vs. -een which still is too rhymey for a combo. But I might be not getting it.

- Dot (Spider from Mars) +1

11/28/2008, 12:44 PM

Don't know if this affects your perception, but the reason they don't sound rhymey to me is that they're stressed on different syllables. CATH-(e)-rin ger-al-DEEN.

- Tippins (blaaarg)

11/28/2008, 1:32 PM

Well..

the reason they don't rhyme for me is because it's CATH-r(schwa)n GER-al-deen (or sometimes dine, depending on my fancy).

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