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[Opinions] Heleen
by Billina (RDNZL)
12/15/2019, 10:24 AM
BtN says it's a Dutch variant of Helen, pronounced hay-LAYN.So, what do you think? Do you think people would pronounce it that way, where you live? **Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam/Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine, and a side order of ham**

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- Anneza
12/15/2019, 10:19 PM
Nope! Where I live they'd use the Afrikaans pronunciation, and though Dutch has pretty much the pronunciation as given, to my knowledge, Afrikaans doesn't. Here, it sounds like EEuh, so the name = huhLEEuhnuh. Which looks appalling, written like that, but sounds totally ordinary here.
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- gigibee
12/15/2019, 6:08 PM
I think people where I live would say heh-LEEN.
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- Dracotorix
12/15/2019, 4:13 PM
I like it, but where I live people would probably pronounce it to rhyme with Coleen.
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- Kerilyntaryn21
12/15/2019, 2:57 PM
They'd pronounce it Hel leen

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- Gracie (YMPvt)
12/15/2019, 2:00 PM
I think the long E is strong with Americans. My favorite short form of Theresa is Trees, but it's a no go for the same reason.
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- Xena
12/15/2019, 1:57 PM
In American, people would definitely say "Hell-EEn"If they were supposed to pronounce it the Dutch way, it would have to be spelled like… Helaine, Helayne, etc.
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- queenv
12/15/2019, 10:40 AM
Nope. They'd pronounce it he-LEEN, like Helene. You're never going to get an American to automatically say hay-LAYN. If they know a Heleen, they may call her hay-LAYN, but it would take some education on the part of Heleen.
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- Daffodil (speakofthewolf)
12/15/2019, 10:34 AM
I think people in the US would pronounce it "hell-LEAN"... which is interesting. It looks like a 1950s morph of Helen to me.Helene would be pronounce more like "hay-LAYN".
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