How do you pronounce Juliet?

[Amethyst24]

I ask because my sister is called Juliet and I think it's a beautiful name. My parents intended it to be pronounced, she pronounces it, and all the family pronounce it, JULy't.

However her whole life she's been called Julie-ETTE and has given up correcting people. It seems like such a popilar name on here and I wondered how people think it should sound.

Same as you, op.

Julie-ETTE just sounds weird to me, but it's what people outside of our family tend to say.

I think you can give an educated guess, because he's writing iambic pentameter, and for 'it is the east, and Juliet is the sun' to be ten it'd have to be the two-syllable 'jul-yet' pronunciation. Not very convincing because Shakespeare isn't actually that fussed about ten syllables, but there we go.

You can sort of tell how people pronounced things despite non-standardised spelling - it still follows patterns, they're just linked more to dialect than to dictionaries.

(That is really boring, I know. Sorry).

I think Juliette is prettier sounding, personally. But it's a lovely name either way.

The way you've written it LRD, I now can't work out how I pronounce it . It must be my (mild) Welsh accent at play!

No, I'm the same.

I started reading this thread before I made dinner and it's been bugging me on and off since 8.30. It's weird how you look at something too long and every pronunciation sounds wrong, isn't it?!

To rhyme with Capulet. :)

I'd sat Joo-lee-et, and can't really hear the difference between the two pronunciations mention tbh.

My dp sis is Juliet ....they seem to pronounce the last bit clipped also more like Joolyt....

Just read my post looks v odd

I'd pronounce Juliet with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Juliette, on the other hand, has the emphasis on the last syllable.

Juliet - Jooly-it a bit like Harriet. Pronounced the same as the old TV show Juliet Bravo (showing my age).

Juliette - joo-lee-ette

PrettyFilou -- thanks for that link. I love with a rocking German orchestra from his later years.

The Juliet I know goes by JU-lee-ET.