How do you pronounce Beatrice and where are you from?

[Crunchymum]

Ball park on location of course

"Beer-triss" - South East

Bee ah triss, south east and it's a family name.

Bee - uh - triss. 3 syllables, stress on Bee. South-East born.

Bee a tris

Ireland ( south)

Bee-uh-Triss

Beer-triss

"bee trist". Fife

We say Bea-ah-triss for our Bea (as in pea).

Never heard it pronounced Beer-triss. I'm from NI.

We say Bea-ah-triss for our Bea (as in pea).

Never heard it pronounced Beer-triss.

The thing is Snipples that many people pronounce "beer" as bee-a, so for them bee-ah-triss and beer-triss would be pretty much the same when spoken.

Beer-triss- edge of East Anglia, heading towards Essex, but from Suffolk.

3 syllables, no R

Bee-ah-triss.

South east

Be-a-triss. But the a is said quite quickly. I’m from East of England

Bee-a-triss.

Beer-triss. Non rhotic

I know the r thing annoys those with rhotic accents but I’m not sure how else to spell it phonetically. It’s not exactly bih-triss but it’s not bee-a-triss either. It just sounds exactly like beer in my accent. I don’t pronounce beer like “bee-ah”.

Bee a triss , North West.

I’d say Beer-triss but I definitely wouldn’t say Barth.

From Nottingham.

I will be listening more closely from now on. Currently sitting in my living room saying Beatrice in different accents like a loon.

I don’t say beer with an r anyway.

This old joke illustrates the same pronounciation:

"What do you call a woman riding a unicycle balancing a pint of lager on her head?"

Beatrix

(Obviously the joke only works when said aloud!)

Ha

Same as you OP. NW London.

@SoupDragon I understand the accent difference but surely you know there's not meant to be an R sound there? I'm genuinely not trying to be goady. I just never understand why people type an R in on these threads.

Then you clearly don't understand the accent difference.

I just never understand why people type an R in on these threads.

Because the 'r' influences the vowel sound so you cant leave it out . It is not a redundant letter just because it is not pronounced in non-rhotic accents.

Bee and beer have completely different vowel sounds because of the 'r'.

In your accent that may be true @raffertyfair. but not in all.
to some bee and beer are the same vowel sound, but with an added rhotic r. to some some bee and beer have very different vowel sounds. to some beer has one syllable and to some it has two.

this is why we should all just learn the phonetic alphabet and then we wouldn't have to continually have discussions about rhoticism that people get very irate about.

Harlot and hahlot both sound exactly the same in my accent. I'm sure there are better examples but that is the only one I've come up with 😂😂