How do you pronounce Beatrice?

[Difficultchoice]

beer-triss or bee-a-triss

Or some other way?

beer-triss or if I'm being careful, bee-triss.
the r is for the a in bea.

if it were my girl, I'd want her to be Bee-triss not Beer-triss.

if Beatrice is Bee-triss, why is Beata 'Bay ah tah'

But rhotic accents don't add a R where there isn't one! They just pronounce one where there is! /car/ /bar/ as opposed to a non-rhotic /ca:/ /ba:/ etc.

I know!

You said 'What exactly would be the difference between beer-triss and bee-a-triss?' implying they both sound the same to you.

I know of a Beatrice in a Scandinavian country who gets called Bay-a-treece. It sounds lovely when you hear it!

They do sound the same because they are the same!

The whole bloody point is that 'bee' and 'beer' don't sound the same to everybody. They may to you, they don't to me.

Bee and Beer do not sound the same. Lancashire born and bred.
You can drown your sorrows by swallowing beer. Swallowing a bee is a whole different ball game.

Bee and beer do not sound the same, of course they don't. One has one syllable and the other has two.

But Beer-triss and Bee-a-triss do. Unless the OP is pronouncing that middle A like the A in cat. Which I doubt.

If you pronounce

'But Beer-triss and Bee-a-triss do'.

They may sound the same when YOU SAY THEM.
But they sound very different when I SAY THEM.

Because I'm guessing we have different accents.

Ugh, posted too soon. If, like I do, you pronounce bee-a-trice with an ah sound there is a huge difference between that and beer-triss.

If you have an accent that could, for example, pronounce Thea as Fear, I can see why it'd be hard to hear the difference.

I think the difference between

Beer-triss and Bee-a-triss

Is the second should write Bee-ah-triss with an emphasis on the "ah".

Mitzy. I get you.

I say Bee-a-triss.

I sound the 'a' too, so Bee-ah-triss (scottish)

I would say 'bee-a-triss' but I know a girl who has it pronounced 'baya-triss' which is lovely.....

Beer tris.

Bee a triss

I've just realised that I actually say bee a trice, not beer trice. I got confused because the way I say "beer" it has 2 syllables. I realise other people with different accents say it wrong with 1 syllable

Beet-riss

Bee-a-triss with a very lightly accented and rapidly pronounced a.

Which is fairly similar to Beer-triss with the r nearly swallowed rather than rolled.

I suppose the middle syllable reflects the Italian/Latin pronunciation (Bay a Tree Chay or thereabouts), but the final bit has been Anglicised hence the Triss. The crazy pronunciation soup that is the English language

It's definitely Be-a-Triss by the time Shakespeare was writing Much Ado About Nothing.

I get you too Mitzy. I nearly gave up the will to live just reading the exchange, you have far more patience than me.

Bee - a- triss

Bee-a-triss

My French niece is Beatrice pronounced Bay-ah- trees, or Bay-ah- for short. She dislikes the British bee-triss.

Bee-a-triss for me.

I get you too Mitzy, it depends on your accent.