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Elinor or Eleanor?
For the longest time I've liked Elinor better, but Eleanor is warming up to me. I'm not sure which is better.What other spellings do you like? I have met an Ellenore.Do you prefer another variation? ie: Lenore?
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Elinor by a whiskerI've also come across an Elanor
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I like them both: I'm more used to Eleanor, but Elinor has an air of business-like streamlining that I enjoy.Tennyson wrote a poem in which he gave Eleanor four syllables for some daft poetic reason! El-e-a-nor. Sad.
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Elinor
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EleanorEleanor is one of my favorite names but I can't stand Elinor.
Other variations I like are Eleonora (my best friends name), Ellenore, Elnora & Elenor.
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I prefer Eleanor to Elinor, but love both.I also love Eleonora, Lenore, Leonora, and Nora, but Eleanor is my favorite of them all.
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I like both spellings but if i'd had to choose i'd take Eleanor.
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Elinor, but I prefer Lenore and Leonora.
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Same here. I used to only like Elinor but Eleanor is growing on me. Still I prefer Elinor.I like Lenore and Nora. Both about the same as Elinor.The only spellings I like are Eleanor, Elinor and maybe Eleanore.
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Eleanor(m)Although I prefer Eleanore even more. I also like Lenore and Norah quite a bit.
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Eleanor. Elinor looks incomplete to me. Like it's missing a letter.
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I like Eleanor best because it's the family version - there are a lot of them in my family, but Elinor is more common in Wales, and it's very nice too. Leonora is probably my favourite of the other related names.
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EleanorElinor looks soooo oversimplified to me that it's just ugly. And my favourite version is definitely Lenore!
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I prefer Elinor because I don't like the "lean" look - and also because it reminds me of Jane Austen's heroine Elinor Dashwood.
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I really like Eleanor and Elinor, but I'd probably go with Eleanor.Lenore is gorgeous. I like this spelling the best. I think I'd probably be more likely to use Lenore than Eleanor even though they're both lovely names.

This message was edited 2/9/2010, 12:57 PM

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Eleanor I guess, but I'm not really a fan. I prefer Leonor or Leonora.
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Elinor
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EleanorI know that Elinor is legit, but Eleanor just always seemed more legit to me, and also more elegant. Eleanor brings to me the picture of a queen...Elinor a common woman.I think there's an Eleanora or Eleanore at school. I think we also have an Eleanor...so I'd have to say that my school has some variations of it.
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Since my family btuchers the name Eleanor so terribly (think "Elliner"), I would choose Eleanor because it looks the least "Elner" like. I like the nice round "ella-NOR" sound, and Eliner looks nasally and frigid to me. I mostly prefer Eleanora, because there is a better chance of it being said properly (Elinera is tricky to say)
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I slightly prefer Eleanor, although I like both.I also like Eleanora, Eleonora and Leonora.
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I prefer Eleanor, though both are fine. My favorite is Eleonore.

This message was edited 2/9/2010, 12:17 PM

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Although I love both Elinor and Eleanor, I prefer Elinor. However, Lenore's my absolute favorite.
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