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Help[Opinions] Which nickname for Beatrice?
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My Beatrice daughter goes by Bea-to-rhyme-with-pea and gets rather frothy if people try to Beeuh her - she says it makes her feel like a barmaid!
Because of long-deceased Dutch royalty I suppose, Afrikaans-speaking South Africans assume that the -a in Bea is sounded as a neutral vowel, so she gets barmaided a lot.
Because of long-deceased Dutch royalty I suppose, Afrikaans-speaking South Africans assume that the -a in Bea is sounded as a neutral vowel, so she gets barmaided a lot.
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Bee seems the most natural to me.
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I like Bee best.
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Bee feels most natural to me.
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I prefer Bea. The Beatrices I've known were both known as Bea (pronounced BAY-uh in Swedish). OTOH, bea is also slang for Béarnaise sauce here, but I don't think that's a problem.
Trice, pronounce treese, might work. Pronounced in Italian, TREE-cheh, it's cute, but it might not work in English.
Trice, pronounce treese, might work. Pronounced in Italian, TREE-cheh, it's cute, but it might not work in English.
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Of those three, Birdie. But I prefer Trissy over any of them.
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My daughter uses Bea and pronounces it Bee.
I sometimes used to call her Bea, pronounced BAY-a, but I think I've stopped.
My mother was mostly known as Bea like my daughter; some relatives sometimes called her Beattie though she wished they wouldn't. One of her friends used to call her Bess!
Birdie seems like too much of a stretch.
There's always Trixie I suppose! And when my husband was a child, one of his friends had a mother known as Trissie, which he accepted without a second thought and, in later life, conjectured that it was probably short for Beatrice. But there's no proof.
I sometimes used to call her Bea, pronounced BAY-a, but I think I've stopped.
My mother was mostly known as Bea like my daughter; some relatives sometimes called her Beattie though she wished they wouldn't. One of her friends used to call her Bess!
Birdie seems like too much of a stretch.
There's always Trixie I suppose! And when my husband was a child, one of his friends had a mother known as Trissie, which he accepted without a second thought and, in later life, conjectured that it was probably short for Beatrice. But there's no proof.
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