Violet pronunciation

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How would you pronounce Violet. I say Vi O Let but have lots of friends saying Vi Let

The o is pronounced as far as I'm concerned. I've never heard anyone say vi let but then again it doesn't crop up all the time

I pronounce it Vi-let in my Scottish accent

I've never heard Violet pronounced like that ?!

It would sound like Varluh where I am

This will be a rhotic/non-rhotic accent thing...

Scots/West Country/American speakers will recoil in horror at the suggestion

while RP speakers will insist it's a completely normal way of pronouncing the name.

Happens every time in these sorts of threads.

I know a Violet and we say it Vi-lut but we're in the midlands. And she gets called Vi

If I was doing it properly I'd say Vi-ah-let

If I'm pronouncing the word slowly and focusing on it, I say VY-uh-lut, where the first syllable is stressed and the latter two syllables are unstressed schwas (as in SE 'put'). But in reality in normal speech I say VY-lut because that middle unstresed vowel just gets elided into the first syllable.

Oh I hadn’t thought of that.

Vigh oh La

VY-uh-lut.

Yes the person is from Italy. Pronounces it Dan Yell Ee though not Dan Yell Eh

VY-LIT, much like violent.