How would you pronounce Brontë?

[Bronteeorbrontay]

Just that really. If you met a Brontë or Bronte, how would you automatically pronounce it?
Is it awful?
I quite like it. I always assumed it was Brontay but online I keep finding people are pronouncing it Brontee. I actually quite like both but I'd want to pick the one that is most commonly used.
We are not set on this name, but I've already got three kids and really struggling to find a name I don't associate with another child we know or a member of our huge family!

Yeah, if your last name is Sawyer, you might need to rethink

Bronte Sawyer is going to get people calling her Bronte Saurus fairly quickly.

Bronty.

that’s why their brother was called Monty. To rhyme.

It’s a diaresiis, but it’s not required as there’s no syllable it might be elided into, and in fact it seems to have been added to the name because of a typo on the cover page of one of Patrick Brontë’s books. The family, however, pronounced their name ‘Bron-Tay’.

My son dances with a bront-ee

It's used to separate two adjacent vowels. The use of it in Brontë is irregular - it's an invented spelling.

I was once told that Brontë was pronounced Bron teh. It should also be said in a Yorkshire accent, as in 'See all, hear all, say nowt'

Anything else is just inauthentic. Now go put wood in t'hole...

Wiki says it's Bronty - (/ˈʃɑːrlət ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/)

@Bronteeorbrontay , having typed it a few times on this thread, I suspect it will be Bronte a lot of the time not Brontë.

Brontay for me

Brontë Sisters = Brontay. Anything else is wrong <gavel>

Thankyou Pleasantpedant, that's interesting to me. I admit it's a long time since my days of dipthongs and the like! Big fan of the Brontes though!

I would pronounce it Bron-Tay but I actually know a teenage Bronte who pronounces it Bron-tee and it only took once being corrected for me to use her preferred pronunciation.

Is it for a boy for girl?

The lovely one I know is Bron-tay

I lived in Sydney for a long time, so say bron tee!

Brontay.

The diacritical mark on Brontë does absolutely nothing and is nothing like the one on Chloë. It’s purely an affectation designed by Rev Brontë when he did a yooneek spelling.

Brontee. ë isn’t é.

They were from Yorkshire. Wouldn't they have said Bronty as Bronteh?

But it's not about you being considered downmarket or whatever surely, it's about your child?

It’s one of those names where it’s 50/50 like Francis and Nadine.

I say Brontee

I'm a firm believer that a person becomes a name and any previous associations get lost.
You might be but others won't.

Bronty, like the sisters(!). I've never said it as Brontay, that sounds like an affectation to me.

Hang on, there's more than one way to say Francis?

I despise the preoccupation with class. I don't personally think Bronte is downmarket, but if some will judge her for that... well hopefully that's a way of naturally selecting friends/acquaintances.

And Nadine?

Na-deen and Nay-deen - I get that one. But Francis has me flummoxed!