How do you pronounce Beatrice?

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Bee-er-triss?

Beer-triss?

Bay-er-triss?

Any other possibles?

Bee-uh-triss here too (London)

Bee-uh-triss.

Bee-a-triss here.

Bee-triss, my accent definitely wouldn't add an 'r' where there isn't one

Bee-uh-triss for me, but I know one who pronounces it 'beet-triss'

Maybe she's from Ireland, Squoosh.

It's a sort of ber-uh-triss there, depending on the region.

Bee ah triss for me - Scottish (not West Coast but general generic Scottish accent and I have no idea why as I was brought up in Edinburgh )

Well I'm from Ireland but I've never heard ber-uh-triss.

I'm Irish - 'BEE-uh-triss'. I have never heard of 'Ber-uh-triss' in any region.

I have a French goddaughter who is 'Bay-a-TREES', and I believe it's 'Bay-a-TREE-chay' for Italians.

Course you are, Squoosh.

bay-a-trees

'Course you are, Squoosh.'

??

Beer triss

I'm also from Ireland and have never heard of Ber-uh-triss.

I'm also at the idea that Squoosh doesn't know where she is from. Silly Squoosh.

Bee-ah-trice

Bee-uh-triss here. I had one living next door to me - that's how she pronounced it too.

I believe the "Irish" jokey thing is to do with someone on here claiming to be Irish but not being Irish. There was a thread. I can't remember which one, it got a bit weird, and something about someone saying they were Irish but not being so, but no names mentioned. I dunno.

Anyway...

Ah, sorry then. That was me being out of the loop with a joke then.

As you were

It's a tricky name. I know two little Beatrices and they are pronounced differently. One is Beer-triss, the other Baya (like Bay tree) triss.

Silly me indeed treacle!

I got to the bottom of it. There's an ongoing thread about protecting your identity on MN. Gemsyll mentioned that she's 'worried' for someone she knows in real life who hasn't done a very good job of concealing their identity and has only changed one detail about themselves, their nationality, and apparently even that's been done 'sloppily'. So it's me, running around MN exposing my identity to all and sundry and pretending to be Irish.

Except she's wrong.

I love the idea of people putting all details of their personal lives on Mn, then thinking 'Uh-oh, better throw in a false lead in case anyone recognises me - I know, I'll pretend to be Irish!'

Of course I am a Serbian Orthodox Monk, posting from my monkish cell in downtown Belgrade.

My dh's niece is called Beatrice. We pronounce it "Beat" (as in drum) and "Rice" (as in the food). But that's not how her parents pronounce it . . .

Beer-triss (but then I'm from the South East so don't have a rhotic accent - is that the right phrase?) so I wouldn't sound the R in the middle but it would just be 2 syllables Beer-Triss rather than the 3 syllable Bee-uh-triss.

Does that make sense??

Lorelai I must confess I always think Beat Rice too!

(Not the prettiest name in the world)

I'm glad I'm not the only one! Luckily we can call her "Bea" when her parents are around, which I think is lovely!