How do you pronounce Beatrice and where are you from?

Bee-ahh-triss (Or beet-riss) - Shropshire/midlands.

Oh good God no apologies needed!

Good luck with that OwlBeThere. I hope everything goes well

@Raffertyfair and I apologise for teaching my grandmother to suck eggs with talk of phonetics and rhotic r’s

Yes a SLT, I then did my masters in ABA therapy and worked privately but Unfortunately not able to work at the moment due to health issues. I hope to go back for the next academic year though!

@kaytee87, I think the confusion is caused by the word ‘beer’ itself. To some of the people who are typing ‘beer’ that is synonymous with ‘bee-uh’ or ‘bee-ah’ that others are using. Because those people pronounce the word ‘beer’ with two syllables. Bee. Uh. And subsequently bee-uh-triss.
However for others who are typing ‘beer-triss’ Their pronunciation of the word beer itself is different. It has one syllable and is quite difficult to type phonetically so people are using the word beer as they would say it (and subsequently beer-triss as a two syllable word) as they don’t have another way of describing it easily. So that’s why they are putting in an ‘r’ that isn’t there.
Does that help? Maybe not lol

Yes - although lapsed
I added a pgce a few years down the line from graduating and worked as a specialist teacher in slc and asd units.
What about you?

@Rafferty are you a SLT just out of nosiness? I know there are a few of us about on mumsnet

@Raffertyfair...haha yes very true on the lessons to learn the phonetic alphabet but at the very least the mumsnet fight about /r/ could be avoided

Bee triss
Scottish

I apologise if my use of the word minority was inaccurate.

(But it doesnt impact directly on the reason for people writing r in beer in the context of this thread)

@SoupDragon obviously I'm not explaining myself very well 🙈

I understand the they sound the same. As I said 'beeah' and 'beer' sound the same in some accepts. I don't understand people typing an R where one doesn't exist though.

How can you not understand when your first sentence explains it? It is simply a phonetic representation of how they pronounce it. (Although beeah and beer aren't the same in my accent with the first having two syllables and the second only one)

Actually, in global terms, those English speakers who pronounce the R are in an astronomically large majority.

I was going to say, I don't think I'm in the minority.

@RaffertyFair ok it makes slightly more sense if people are using the actual word 'beer' to represent a sound actually as in their accent it makes sense to them. Everyone not typing 'beer' has sounded it out though so it is genuinely confusing and has left me wondering how these people actually pronounce it. Beeahh or Beer which sound totally different to me.

Others have typed the word beer because to them that also represents the sound they mean.
What is so hard to understand?

As you are one of the minority who sound the r in beer I understand that might be irritating, Katy, but surely not incomprehensible to you?

Actually, in global terms, those English speakers who pronounce the R are in an astronomically large majority.

Bate-Riss.

Northern Ireland.

I don't understand people typing an R where one doesn't exist though

Because it makes the same sound in their accent! 🤦🏻‍♀️ To me, bath, bahth and Barth are the same. If someone asked how I pronounced "bath" I might type "Barth" to represent the "ah' sound as both ar and ah are exactly the same. Barth and Bahth would both be accurate representations of the pronunciation in my accent (and that of a large proportion of the U.K.).

Bee a triss north west.

I don't understand people typing an R where one doesn't exist though.

They are typing an r because they are typing an actual word (beer) not typing combinations of letters. The word beer has an r in it.
Some posters have typed bee-a or bee-ah to convey the sound they mean.
Others have typed the word beer because to them that also represents the sound they mean.
What is so hard to understand?

As you are one of the minority who sound the r in beer I understand that might be irritating, Katy, but surely not incomprehensible to you?

But how do you pronounce beer? One syll or two?

@SoupDragon I understand the they sound the same. As I said 'beeah' and 'beer' sound the same in some accepts. I don't understand people typing an R where one doesn't exist though.

I'm Scottish, I pronounce my R's and don't add them where they don't exist.

I'm English and I also don't add Rs where they don't exist. Unfortunately some people seem unable to comprehend that "hahlot" and "harlot" sound exactly the same in some accents.

Bee-triss. From Scotland

@Sashkin see!! You know there's no R in it !