Brontë

[Cupofteaandbiscuits]

My sister is thinking of calling her baby Brontë but has heard it pronounced differently!

is it bron-tea or brown-tay?

Prunty is from a word meaning banquet-hall (proinn + teach) or else from a personal name Pronntach meaning "gift".

It's chavvy however you pronounce it

I like Bronte, especially with the umlaut, (I think it's pretty) and Charlotte is one of my favourite writers. I wouldn't be as positive about Branwell though - he was a ne'er-do-well!

My DD best friend at primary was Brontë ( tee)
Lovely name suited her. It did get altered to Bron/ Bronnie as she got older. She will be in her 30s now.
Taught for 35 years only came across her.

I would say Bron tee. I suspect brontosaurus will happen at some point.

I would have assume Bron tay like the authors. I've never known anyone called it, so that would be my only point of reference. I do agree that the umlaut does suggest it should end with an ee sound, but since the Bronte sisters are so well known I would have defaulted to that pronouciation.

I'm not a big fan of the name tbh, but there's far worse names out there.

@KarminaBurana , @FromHere it's not an umlaut. It's a diaeresis.

@Cupofteaandbiscuits , there are previous threads on the name that might be of interested.

@RedRobyn2021 , did you get the meaning from some random baby name site? Meaning, origin and history of the surname Prunty - Behind the Name

Bron-tea.

The umlaut will be a pain in the neck every time the child uses a UK computer/phone to write the name. I’d drop the umlaut

@Emanwenym it's an umlaut.

The writing family is actually pronounced bron tea not bron Tay, it’s just very commonly mispronounced!

And it’s not an umlaut, it’s a diaeresis.

I wouldn’t go for any name that is extremely likely to be pronounced wrong, including this.

Diaeresis/umlaut, yadda yadda...why complicate a child's name?

Forever in my mind as a GCSE English text. And the name of my class in school.

Bron tey.

I think it’s a nice name.

and Jane is a good nick name.

No. Umlauts are ä, ö and ü and indicate a particular vowel sound. This is a diaeresis which indicates that the vowel is sounded separately, like in Zoë or Anaïs.

It appears to be AI suggesting that Brontë is related to the Greek word for thunder.

😂😂😂
I'm taking notes 😂!
I honestly don't think that's going to work well on an everyday name, but perhaps the parents could write down your notes for guidance. 😉

I don’t understand your comment? I don’t think the parents should use the name. I’m just explaining what the linguistic term is called.

I am quite surprised by the number of people who are confidently mispronouncing the authors’ name though!

😂 oh dear.
The poor kid will just call herself Bron and not refer to academic notes, perhaps! 😂
Love it.

Well. It's probably easier if she's called Felicity or something. It's certainly prompted a "linguistic" debate. 😂

It’s not some niche academic concept… everyone knows how to pronounce Zoë. Anyone who’s learnt French will have come across it.

Yes, everyone does know how to pronounce Zoe. Less so Bronte, I would imagine.
Please, no rebuke for my lack of diaeresis.
I'm not sure how to do that on my phone. 🙁

Not sure about android but on an iPhone you hold down the letter and options will come up for various types of diacritic.

Is the baby a girl or a boy?
There was a Bronte (pronounced Bron-tea and didn't have the dots on the e) at a baby group I went to.
He was a boy. But I do remember thinking it sounded more like a girls name.

I was at school with a girl called Therese. I don't wish to be rebuked for incorrect information, but over the first 2 "e" s were accents. These were going in different directions (grave? acute?).This was in Yorkshire in the 60s, it was unusual.
The poor girl had to constantly explain these accents and in which direction they went.
By the time we went to university, she was calling herself Tess.

Thank you 😊