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I pronounce both CAUL-in.

This probably isn't very helpful but, in Australia, we would never say Caul-in, no matter how you spelled the name. I like Colin though =)

I think Collin looks better but both ways are supposed to be pronounced KAHL-in.

I don't think the spelling changes the pronunciation

Collin looks like the ln Collins after an s-job. It doesn't happen where I live, though there are quite a few Colin people around, not all of them grandfathers. Until General Powell became a world figure, I'd never heard either one pronounced as Coal-in, and it still seems very strange and counter-intuitive. So, here in South Africa the spelling doesn't matter; elsewhere, I suppose it would be more logical to use a double consonant to indicate a shorter preceding vowel, but there isn't that much logic available to the general public, so probably anything goes.

Well, to make absolute sure that the name was pronounced like Collins, I'd use two l's. Colin I have never really liked precisely because it's impossible to know how it is pronounced, because both ways are accepted, and the one way sounds like colon.

Never heard it pronounced Caul-in before, no matter how you spell it. If you wanted Coal-in, I'd do Colin, but the only time I've heard it pronounced that way is Colin Powell. I definitely wouldn't want to pronounce it like colon. lol

Hi !!!

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I don't know how pronounce Colin.

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I think COH-leen.

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I don't know... I use this pronounce but I'm not a English-speaker XD

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