How do you pronounce Beatrice?

[Difficultchoice]

beer-triss or bee-a-triss

Or some other way?

beer-triss

Beer-triss

Beer-triss when I say it

Beer-Triss

Beer triss
If not, the "beer tricks potter"joke wouldn't work

Italian girl in DD's class pronounces it Bee-ah-tree-chay

bee-a-triss

Bee-a-triss

Bear - triss

Bee-a-tris

Bee-a-triss

What exactly would be the difference between beer-triss and bee-a-triss?

Unless we are pronouncing "beer" like a Worzel?

I have an aunt Beatrice, we all call her Beet-ris. No "r"or "a" in the middle, don't know if it makes any difference, but we're Scottish.

Well I'm Scottish and beer-triss and bee-a-triss sound very different, I suppose it depends on the accent.

I would say bee-a-triss

Like a Worzel?

Or maybe an Irish person, a Scottish person, an American person.........

Not everyone is from the South East of England! Some people are quite fond of pronouncing their 'r's you know.

I'm Irish, I'd pronounce it Bee-a-triss. Or Bee-triss, possibly.

I'm not from the south-east either.

As there is no (letter) R in Beatrice, no-one is going to add a /r/ sound surely?

(no letter R in the first syllable, clearly, even us northerners can see the one in the second )

'As there is no (letter) R in Beatrice, no-one is going to add a /r/ sound surely?'

Exactly. That's why 'beer-triss' makes no sense to me.

In fact, the only variation I've ever heard (obviously apart from actual foreign pronunciations like the Italian one above) have been in the final syllable where some pronounce it /tris/ and some with a slightly more neutral schwa sound.

But I know that people with non-rhotic accents don't pronounce the r in 'beer', hence posters saying they pronounce Beatrice as beer-triss.

"Exactly. That's why 'beer-triss' makes no sense to me."

Which is why I asked what the difference was between the two in the OP

Bee a triss

You asked 'What exactly would be the difference between beer-triss and bee-a-triss?'. I've tried to explain that there's a big difference for people with rhotic accents.

Beer-triss sounds nothing like bee-a-triss in my accent.

Bee-a-triss