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Re: My column on Eileen
Dexy's Midnight Runners could warm me up to just about any name! A friend comes from a family with a tradition of giving children a name beginnign with A-, and her mother's name is Aileen. I assumed it was AYleen, but no, it only looks like that; it sounds like IEleen. No doubt they ran out of A names.
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I was surprised the first time I came across Aileen pronounced as Eileen. In Ireland Aileen is always Ay-Leen.
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