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Can also be pronounced CLEHM-in-tien.
The last syllable in English usually rhymes with the words “tine”, “line”, and “shine”.
Please note that, as the website says, it's clem-en-TEEN, not clem-en-TYNE. It comes from the French. The 'i' is an 'ee' sound.'
Someone says that, as the name is of French origin, it should be pronounced with an "ee" in the last syllable. Just because that's the way it's pronounced in French doesn't mean it must be pronounced that way in English. (I'm not suggesting that it mustn't either.) In French, the e in the first syllable would be pronounced "ay" and the second syllable would have a nazalized "ah" sound. Would anyone suggest they should be pronounced that way in English? As the "ie" pronunciation is far more familiar in English, no doubt because of the song, I'm surprised it isn't listed as an alternative.
I like it said "Clemen-tine" with a long I.

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