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How would you pronounce Frances?

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JessicaBearx · 09/07/2017 08:24

I would pronounce it FrARNces. Is this how most pronounce it or do you pronounces in Fran ces?
Asking because i don't want to pick a name we are pronouncing "wrong". ThanksSmile

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TheDowagerCuntess · 09/07/2017 08:42

I pronounce Frances and Francis exactly the same - Frahn-sis.

Trills · 09/07/2017 08:42

Fist half:

Depends where you are from like Bath

Second half

Depends if boy or girl, sis vs sez

What fun.

ShatnersBassoon · 09/07/2017 08:42

Short 'a' as in Frank. It's a regional thing, so some people will say it as you'd like it said, and some people won't.

Nessalina · 09/07/2017 08:40

Good point, different depending on sex!
Frances (girl) - FRAN-sez
Francis (boy) - FrARN-sis

JennyOnAPlate · 09/07/2017 08:40

I live in Birmingham and it would definitely be fran not frarn here.

Trills · 09/07/2017 08:39

Fr AHN sez

With an AH, not an AR.

Definitely not SIS.

JennyLane · 09/07/2017 08:38

Fran-sis - midlander
My mil says frarn-sis because she's a southerner.

This is actually one of my kids names and regional dialects don't bother me with the name. Just say it how it feels most natural

Nessalina · 09/07/2017 08:38

Northern - FRAN-cez

CiderwithBuda · 09/07/2017 08:38

Actually don't think I've ever heard it any other way.

CiderwithBuda · 09/07/2017 08:37

Fran-ces. North Dublin originally but lived in UK for years.

CocoLoco87 · 09/07/2017 08:37

Frarn-ces.

LovelyBranches · 09/07/2017 08:35

Fran-cis. Would it annoy you if other people pronounced the name differently to you? I didn't realose that very locally there is an alternative way to say my son's name (completely the wrong way, it doesn't even make sense). I am that mother, the one who's hissing his name back to them.

BertrandRussell · 09/07/2017 08:35

Frarn-ses if it's a girl.
Frarn-sis if it's a boy

SuperBeagle · 09/07/2017 08:32

Fran-ces. Emphasis on the first syllable.

Fran to rhyme with man.

I'm Australian.

insancerre · 09/07/2017 08:31

Frarn sis

Onhold · 09/07/2017 08:30

Fran-ces . From the Midlands.

SailAwayWithMeHoney · 09/07/2017 08:30

Fr-arn-ces

Bit like Frarnce.

I'm from Kent in the SE England. My friends up north pronounce it Fran-sis.

BurntBum · 09/07/2017 08:30

It will be pronounced differently according to people's accent and whether they use a long or a short A just as in grass, bath, path etc.

Fozzleyplum · 09/07/2017 08:30

It depends whether you use a hard or soft "a" in words like bath and path.

Here in the Midlands, if you wanted your child's name pronounced with a soft "a", you would have to accept that most people would say it with a hard "a", because that is the prevailing local accent.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 09/07/2017 08:29

Frarn siss

Thatextrainch · 09/07/2017 08:28

Agree, there's a north/south divide on this like with Tanya (Tarnya is natural to me, a southerner, Tanya is unnatural)

Shockers · 09/07/2017 08:28

I'm from the beautiful north Wink.

Shockers · 09/07/2017 08:28

Fran-ces.

robinia · 09/07/2017 08:27

say not day

robinia · 09/07/2017 08:27

Your way. One of my best friends at school was Frances. But I'm a southerner and I day France the country as Frarnce. A northerner may be different - but you'd get that with any similar name.

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