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Abilene! and her sister Daisetta! Yay!

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Elinor, this post is just ticklin me to death! I thought I was the only one to like Abilene, and then only because I'm in Texas; and the other Texan posters seem a might embarrassed by it, but I'm embracin it wholeheartedly. Abilene is like a hick combination of Abigail and Jolene, to say nothing of the fact that it's also a hick Texas town. Plus she'd need a twin sister named Daisetta! Another hick Texas town, you see. I'd call them Abby and Daisy, one would be fair and the other dark, and they'd sit on the front porch at twilight and charm all the cowboys goin by in their pickups.

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Oh, almost forgot to add, it's definitely AB-i-leen. No other way ever, I don't care what anybody tells you! :-)

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And they'd have brothers named Houston, Austin, and Dallas. ;D

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~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon

This message was edited 10/6/2006, 3:15 AM

"Abilene, Abilene, prettiest town I've ever seen. The women there don't treat you mean, in Abilene, my Abilene." ~Waylon Jennings song; Abilene.
This is what I think of when I hear Abilene.

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I live about an hour from the TX town Abilene- we pronounce it AB-uh-leen or AB-i-leen. I don't like it as a name, but that's probably because I'm so familiar with it as a town.
*Edited to add song lyrics*

This message was edited 10/5/2006, 12:38 PM

I've never heard it prn like a-bi-LEE-nee, only ab-UH-leen like the TX city. It's different for a name anyways. I'd like it as ab-UH-leen rather than the other.

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I used to be from Texas and I can tell you that as a more modern place-name it would definitely be AB-i-leen. I don't think there is anything wrong with using it as a name, but Abilene Texas and Abilene Kansas, which pronounces it the same way, are definitely cow towns - even today. And I think that most people from either of those states or nearby states are going to make that association. If you don't mind that association, then I say use it: it's fun and different!!

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~ EM

This message was edited 10/5/2006, 8:53 AM

Both Abilene, Kansas and Abilene, Texas are prn. ab-uh-LEEN. Abilene, TX was named after Abilene, KS, which was the largest and I believe first "cowtown" in the 19th century, meaning it had saloons, mercantile stores and other businesses that catered specifically to cowboys herding cattle before the advent of barbed wire fencing and the construction of the transcontinental railroads were completed. Images of tumbleweed and swinging saloon doors come to mind. :)

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1. Definitely AB-ih-leen. I think BtN's pronunciation is antiquated.

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2. I think it's pretty, but it's not one I'd use. There's something extremely appealing to it, though, and I'd love to see a kid named Abilene.

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I like it quite a bit. I like Abigail except for its explosive popularity, and Abilene has the same kind of charm to me--as long as I'm pronouncing it like the US city, at least. I'm so used to it that a-bi-LEE-nee doesn't particularly seem right; I have a hard time getting used to it being the "correct" pronunciation and it tends to feel wrong. Anyway it was the AB-i-leen sound that I liked in the first place. :-)

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I try not to think about it being too "Texas," which is its only real drawback to me since I'm totally not ("Texas," that is).

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