How would you pronounce Frances?

[JessicaBearx]

I would pronounce it FrARNces. Is this how most pronounce it or do you pronounces in Fran ces?
Asking because i don't want to pick a name we are pronouncing "wrong". Thanks

To me it read that they were asking why, not insisting that it should be one way or the other, but my sincere apologies if I have misunderstood.

steppemum Hannah and banana not rhyming for English people has blown my mind!

All the Hannahs I know have been called Hannah Banana at one point where I live (Glasgow) because they do rhyme in a Scottish accent. Crazy!

Hannah and banana dont rhyme for me

They don't for anyone,how can they unless they say Han ahn ah?

They don't for anyone,how can they unless they say Han ahn ah?

Of course they do! Han-nah, Ban-nan-ah. They rhyme to huge numbers of people.

Why would ANYONE say Frarn? Makes no sense. Fran - sis here.

Han ah and ban ah rhyme but how does Hannah rhyme with banana? It's making me laugh as I'm sitting here sounding them out Banana has an extra syllable.

Why would ANYONE say Frarn?

Why would they not?

You know things don't have to have the same number of syllables to rhyme though, yes?

In my southern accent it comes out Hannah ( with a short A) and banana ( baahh,nahhh na) I can't make them rhyme at all. How funny

Why would ANYONE say Frarn?

This thread just keeps on giving. HOW can people not know that the UK has different regional accents? How?

Think of someone with a 'posh' accent, like Stephen Fry or Judi Dench, saying 'Frances'. How would that sound?

Why would ANYONE say Frarn?

I give up

Oh yes I can see how Hannah and Banana rhyme in Scottish accent!

No, it doesn't have the same number of syllables, but the sounds rhyme, and it is a cute rhyming pattern in an American (and Scottish!) accent

Most people in UK say banarna, even those who say a short A for bath!

It's quite odd that some people haven't worked out that it's different accents that dictate the pronunciation...

I know, Waitrose. The tone of some posters implies that they think pronunciation is an individual choice!

What i dont get is why is there an R? Ive heard people say words as a long A, but it doesnt have an R sound. I say Fran-sis. Id have assumed in parts of the south it would be FrAAAnsis. So where does the R come in? Like castle. Ive heard people say cAAAsle. But people write rhat they say Car-sle. Is that a real thing?

CountDuck - when I say a word with an R in it, the R is really not pronounced. My accent (SE) doesn't do rolling R or stressed R at all. Dh laughs at me, because he is Dutch so he can do a 'proper' R and I can't.

We learnt Russian together and the teacher shook her head at me and smiled at him a lot sigh

So, when I say car, it isn't carrr, it is cah, with a long A.
So to describe what it sounds like when I say Bath or Francis, I say it is Barth or Frarncis, because in my accent it is the same sound as in car.

There isn't actually an R sound as in rrrrr, just the sound ar = ah

That makes total sense.

Yeah, it's not really an R more an ahhhh.

Hannah does rhyme with banana in some West Country English accents

So do Glaswegian (all Scots?!) pronounce banana - ba-nana (as in someone's grandmother)? Similar to the way an American would pronounce it?

That's the only way I can get it to rhyme with Hannah.

Frarn-ces. [No, not "Frame-sex", thank you, autocorrect.] I'm Aussie.

Fr-AHRN- sess
Southerner

So do Glaswegian (all Scots?!) pronounce banana - ba-nana (as in someone's grandmother)? Similar to the way an American would pronounce it?

Dowager yes we do. I can't think of one Scottish accent which would give you the English ban-aaa-na pronunciation. And it's so weird that the general Northern English pronunciation also doesn't rhyme with Hannah when we're often the same with vowels (bath, castle etc). Mind blown here

"Why would ANYONE say Frarn? Makes no sense."

Why would ANYONE in this country with our (wrongly) south-east-centric media/culture have never once noticed that in RP or any south-eastern accent, "ah" and "ar" sound exactly the same? Makes no sense.

I assume those who don't get it do not own a television, and have never ventured south of Nottingham?

Of course Banana rhymes with Hannah. We call my friend Hannah-Banana. Always have.