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How do you pronounce Beatrice?

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Difficultchoice · 16/11/2015 10:12

beer-triss or bee-a-triss

Or some other way?

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Parpaltunnel · 19/11/2015 11:46

Bee a triss

ENtertainmentAppreciated · 18/11/2015 22:00

I say Bee-triss

BitOfFun · 18/11/2015 19:58

I say baya trees.

cece · 18/11/2015 19:55

I say Beer-trix too Smile

ToadsforJustice · 18/11/2015 19:49

Beer Trix

IHaveBrilloHair · 18/11/2015 19:46

Bee triss

BeautifulStars93 · 18/11/2015 19:42

Bee a triss x

steppemum · 16/11/2015 22:40

bee a triss

I pronounce beer without a proper r, and as one syllable.

I pronounce bee-a with 2 clear syllables

MrsGolightly · 16/11/2015 22:32

I'm the mother of one. I pronounce it Bee-a-triss.

DramaAlpaca · 16/11/2015 22:27

Bee-a-triss for me.

I get you too Mitzy, it depends on your accent.

dementedma · 16/11/2015 22:21

My French niece is Beatrice pronounced Bay-ah- trees, or Bay-ah- for short. She dislikes the British bee-triss.

AuntGertrude · 16/11/2015 22:18

Bee-a-triss

BackforGood · 16/11/2015 21:01

Bee - a- triss

PlumpFiction · 16/11/2015 20:51

I get you too Mitzy. I nearly gave up the will to live just reading the exchange, you have far more patience than me. Grin

Bogburglar99 · 16/11/2015 20:26

Bee-a-triss with a very lightly accented and rapidly pronounced a.

Which is fairly similar to Beer-triss with the r nearly swallowed rather than rolled.

I suppose the middle syllable reflects the Italian/Latin pronunciation (Bay a Tree Chay or thereabouts), but the final bit has been Anglicised hence the Triss. The crazy pronunciation soup that is the English language Smile

It's definitely Be-a-Triss by the time Shakespeare was writing Much Ado About Nothing.

Scarletforya · 16/11/2015 20:25

Beet-riss

whatdoIget · 16/11/2015 20:24

I've just realised that I actually say bee a trice, not beer trice. I got confused because the way I say "beer" it has 2 syllables. I realise other people with different accents say it wrong with 1 syllable

ShellyF · 16/11/2015 20:24

Bee a triss

TheComforter · 16/11/2015 20:21

Beer tris.

Kathysclown · 16/11/2015 20:15

I would say 'bee-a-triss' but I know a girl who has it pronounced 'baya-triss' which is lovely.....

dementedpixie · 16/11/2015 20:02

I sound the 'a' too, so Bee-ah-triss (scottish)

TrinityForce · 16/11/2015 20:01

Grin Mitzy. I get you.

I say Bee-a-triss.

30andtired · 16/11/2015 19:58

I think the difference between

Beer-triss and Bee-a-triss

Is the second should write Bee-ah-triss with an emphasis on the "ah".

IoraRua · 16/11/2015 16:27

Ugh, posted too soon. If, like I do, you pronounce bee-a-trice with an ah sound there is a huge difference between that and beer-triss.

If you have an accent that could, for example, pronounce Thea as Fear, I can see why it'd be hard to hear the difference.

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/11/2015 16:27

'But Beer-triss and Bee-a-triss do'.

They may sound the same when YOU SAY THEM.
But they sound very different when I SAY THEM.

Because I'm guessing we have different accents.