Why did they call her 'Carolyn'?
Her name is CAROLINE, not Carolyn. That drove me nuts.
shareit's pronounced both ways -- generally the preference of the person so named.
shareUm, no. Caroline is pronounced Caro-LINE. Carolyn is pronounced Caro-LYN.
shareUm, no. I respectfully disagree. I went to school with 2 Carolines who BOTH pronounced it as linn not LINE and they were both from literate families.
shareHere you go, ec1979 -- the board's very own Henry Higgins:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091107204206AANH1RD
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That link is dead.
sharehttps://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091107204206AANH1RD
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Thanks....proves that most people agree with me.
sharenot at all. it says it's decidedly regional. and since the book on which the movie was based was written by a New Yorker, and the movie took place in NYC, the prevailing pronunciation of Carolynnnnn for the spelling caroLYNE was correct.
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Decidedly? Hardly, it's an opinion poll website. Most of those commenting agree with me. The movie (it's a book first) may take place in NYC, but Caroline is from outside the city.
We live in a society that, when many people do something incorrectly (and since most Americans are stupid, that happens frequently), we change the rules. This happens with spelling and grammar; we even change the definitions to words to accommodate general stupidity. This is such a case: many people mispronounce the name "Caroline" as "Carolyn", so now, that's accepted too.
Interesting discussion at this link....
http://forums.thebump.com/discussion/7085874/caroline-vs-carolyn
I agree with you, and that's been my experience. Also, the pronunciation regardless of spelling is Caro-lynn much more often than Caro-line (at least here in California, New York, and Colorado, all of which I've lived in. Bbut someone here sure needs to be right on this so I suggest we simply know better and let them enjoy their childish tantrum.
shareI agree with you, and that's been my experience. Also, the pronunciation regardless of spelling is Caro-lynn much more often than Caro-line (at least here in California, New York, and Colorado, all of which I've lived in). Bbut someone here sure needs to be right on this so I suggest we simply know better and let them enjoy their childish tantrum.
shareI'm in California. I know four Carolines, all pronounce their names rhyming with "twine." As far as famous Caroline's: Sweet Caroline, Caroline Kennedy, Caroline Ingals, all pronounced phonetically, rhyming with "twine."
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