How would you pronounce Juliet?

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I posted about the name Juliet yesterday and it seems that there could be some confusion over pronunciation. So, how would you pronounce the name?

JULIE-et?
Julie-ET?

But how is that pronounced?

@Piggywaspushed , not all of us on here are English even if we are British.

@JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn , she is saying that Annabelle is pronounced Anna Bell and Isabelle Isa Bell, not ANN-a-bel and IS-a-bel. I'd say them just like Annabel and Isabel.
If you compare Janet and Janette - one is JAN-et and the other JanET, Juliet and Juliette follow the same stress pattern. Juliet is JOOL-i-et and Juliette is Julie-ETTE.

To me Juliet and Juliette are pronounced exactly the same

Isabel and Isabelle are pronounced the same
Annabel and Annabelle are pronounced the same

They are pronounced very differently - the former are pronounced the English way, so Juliet, Annabel or Isabel.

However the French spellings, Juliette, Annabelle or Isabelle, are pronounced with the emphasis on the last syllable, JuliETTE, AnnaBELLE, IsaBELLE.

Exactly like the difference between Janet or Jeanette.

The fact of the matter is that many people (most people?) pronounce Juliet and Juliette in exactly the same way. So don't pick the name Juliet if that would annoy you.

A friend's daughter is Isabelle. They say it as Isabel, as I'd imagine do most people. The French pronunciation is generally equal stress on all syllables.

But the French don't stress the last syllable!

Exactly, @mocktail .

Juliet is pronounced with uh sound at the end, Julie-ut. There is a symbol for this sound in the phonetic alphabet it’s one of the most common sounds in the English language and sounds like the vowel in “the” not the the uh sound in “bus” if that make sense!

Juliette is pronounced like serviette

@IamTheSun , the sound is a schwa, and doesn't sound like the e in the, it sounds like the ah in Sarah or Noah

It's [ˈdʒuːlɪɛt] not [ˈdʒuːlɪət]

I’m sorry but wtaf is Julie-ut?

Apologies to @IamTheSun , I meant to @ @Thighdentitycrisis not you.

But the French don't stress the last syllable!

Ok, they equally weight the syllables whereas the English versions emphasise the first syllable

I teach English and have literally never heard anyone say Juliet with this schwa sound. Ne-ver.

There are two pronunciations, one of which uses the schwa -which is really common sound in English.

Juliet. /ˈdʒuːliət/, (or ). /ˌdʒuːliˈet/.

So I keep reading on here. Never heard a single person say it...

Like Julian . But with a T?

As DS said, it doesn't work with Shakespeare's metre.

I am not saying Juliut Capulut as an experiment. The Montagues and the Capuluts. Hmm. Might do it there. But it's still not Juliut.

*now saying

My daughter is Juliette for that exact reason. I wanted the stress to be on the 'ette', not the 'Jul'.

It made sense in my pregnant head.

“For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

Ten syllables, iambic pentameter.
Juliet is effectively only two syllables and the stress has to go on JU.

A bit like Julian, yes, for the stress.

I get the stress, but not the uh sound. I agree the Ju is stressed there but not in the title. But always an ET sound with differing emphases .

I think more emphasis on the first syllable. But it's not that pronounced.

But you can see that the pronunciation guides put the schwa pronunciation and the stress on the first syllable as the first (main?) pronunciation. The other pronunciation with an emphasised -et is secondary, though valid.
Juliet. /ˈdʒuːliət/, (or ). /ˌdʒuːliˈet/.

Yes, but I'm talking about this uh sound. I can put emphasis at the beginning and still say et.

ˈdʒuːliət -the schwa is the symbol that is the penultimate one. Joo-lyut. Sort of. Not Joo-lyet. Because it’s unstressed, in English the “e” sound then becomes a schwa. We change it without realising it.