How do you pronounce Eugenie?

[dollydoops]

I don't want to name a baby Eugenie, just saw it on another thread and it set me off wondering how to pronounce it, as I do whenever I see Princess Eugenie mentioned. I always thought it was you- GEE knee, but then I saw an article suggesting YOU- je-knee. Anyone?

You-jean-ie I think. Although I caveat that I have a Scottish accent, this is how my mum pronounces it and she is more than a little in love with the royals.

I say "yew-gee-knee" with pretty even stress on each syllable.

You-Jay-knee I believe.

You-Jay-Knee. Emphasis on the middle syllable

I also started out thinking it was you-gee-knee but since then have heard on the news and such as you-JAY-knee, emphasis middle syllable.

From the french/latin - you-j-nee

But i think princess E is you-jane-ee

I realised I didn't really show hard or soft 'g': I say yew-zhee-knee (and for a boy, yew-zheen)

I heard Sarah Ferguson refer to Princess Eugenie as YOU-jen-ee.

(on TV not in person that is!!)

You-genie as in genie in a bottle.

Emphasis on the gene of genie

I think it is yoo-zhay-NEE

This thread exemplifies the problem: pretty much everyone has said something different! :o does anyone actually know a Eugenie?

Only the royal one, dollydoops!

I once read that Princess Eugenie pronounces her name to sound like "use your knees", and her nickname is "Yooj".

I know a Eugene, pronounced Yew-jean. So I'd just add an -ie sound at the end to get to Eugenie.

I think it is You-j'ai-knee, with the middle bit pronounced with a soft j, as if you were speaking french, saying J'ai.

I though it had a zhay sound in the middle.

It's one of those secret society names. Prove how posh you are by altering the middle syllable ever so slightly. Get it wrong and you'll be cast out of decent society forever!

My DP used to know the royal one: she pronounced it you - jenn - a, but apparently had to correct everyone to that pronunciation, so I'm guessing it's not standard.

I knew a Eugenie who pronounced it with emphasis on a zhay sound in the middle.

I had heard the 'use your knees' thing as well.

www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/109755-fergie-s-duckling-turns-into-swan

However, I think 'you-zhay-nee' or 'Oo-zhen-ee' are also pretty common.

you-zhay-nee is similar to the French, although in French it's more uh-zhay-nee . I think it depends on whether there is an accent on the middle e = Eugénie.

Sarah Ferguson says it (through lips that no longer open) at 0:02 in . YOU-jen-ie.

Anyone else think You-zhay-nee and Oo-zhen-ee are starting to look like normal names now!

IMVHO, it's pronounced fucking dreadful.

"Anyone else think You-zhay-nee and Oo-zhen-ee are starting to look like normal names now!"

Not so much normal as on the :o