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

How is it pronounced, then?

with a short a, obviously. Not everywhere of course, but in some areas.

Father was a joke. In lots of the North of England where it's solidly bath and grass, a person has a faaaahther.

In broad Yorkshire isn't it more like faither?

It's an accent thing, the same as bath, grass and class. They are all pronounced differently in the north and south.

Father with a short a here

I'm a Frances. I'm from a place with a short 'a' but when I moved down south, a lot of southerners started calling me Fran or Franny as it was easier to call me something with a short 'a' rather than a long one I think. No one shortened up name oop north, and I reckon it's cos it already had a short 'a'.

By the way, I hate being called Fran, so I cringe when people say they're going to call their baby Frances no Fran. It sounds really hard to me.

Hannah and banana rhyme in my Scottish accent

Surely the thing with an accent isn't that you're saying it differently but that your tongue deals with sounds in a different way and makes them come out differently to how they would be with no accent? So logically Frances would sound like "Fran-sis", bath/bath etc but the accent gets in the way to create the "aaaar" sound of a Southern English accent?

So logically Frances would sound like "Fran-sis", bath/bath etc but the accent gets in the way to create the "aaaar" sound of a Southern English accent?

yes but as multiple people have pointed out (and got kicked for it) it only sometimes does that. In some names their accent changes it but in others it doesn't.

apparently thats just how accents work though.

Hannah banana don't rhyme for me!

That would be Hannah bananna. Or Harnah banana

France-iss.

Since the pronunciation of France varies depending on accent, I'd say the pronunciation of the name should do too.

No such thing as "no accent"

Phonology - how speech sounds are pronounced in context - is really very interesting.

eg hand = hand
bag = bag
handbag = hambag

And here's another interesting one.

Heathrow, very familiar name. Stressed second syllable, HeathROW, yes? Yes, until you say Heathrow Airport and suddenly it's HEATHrow.

Every time you speak, you apply dozens of rules you could probably not identify, let alone list. Branching out beyond phonology, you'd never talk about "a blue big cupboard"; it would have to be "a big blue cupboard".

Why on Earth would you add an 'r' where there isn't one?!

^ Oh dear.

The question I've been dying to ask is.........why would you add an R when there isn't one?

That R looks so odd to anyone with a rhotic accent. It's how individuals with a non rhotic accent indicate the ah sound.

I was taught that only one accent in the world puts an R in Dalek (Darrrlek): Bristol.

Fraarn siz (Kent)

My name is Frances, the name come from the country France, the correct pronuonciation is France with an 's' at the end. I would be highly offended if somebody called me Fran or Franny which rhymes with 'annie.

Fran-cez - short a- but I'm from the North

Frarn-ses

I would say Fran (to rhyme with man) ces.

Those who pronounce it Frarn-ces, do you pronounce it Frarn-cesca or Francesca?

France sis

Francesca is an Italian name - Italian pronunciation is different.

Do you think we're saying 'Frahn-siss' to be pretentious? IT IS NOT PRETENSION - IT IS HOW VAST SWATHES OF THE COUNTRY SPEAK.

Never have I ever known or notices6tge variety of ways you can pronounce my name.

Honesty couldn't care less how you pronounce it.

Care very much if you spell it the male way (Francis) and care even more when you shorten it to Franny/ Frannie which I detest!