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Help[Opinions] Re: Beatrice
in reply to a message by Perrine
I'm the jam in a Beatrice sandwich, so all my opinions are good ones.
My mother didn't mind her name, except that nobody ever used it, and though she was fine with Bea, she was tiny and pretty and mostly got Beattie! If she'd lived to meet her granddaughter, I think she might have let us use Beatrice as a mn, but nothing else. However, she didn't and we both wanted to honour her, and did.
My daughter is happy with her name and the meaning, and chooses to go by Bea. She finds that Afrikaans-speaking people tend to assume her name is 'really' Beatrix, and/or to pronounce it Beetrice and her nn as Bee. But she sorts them out very swiftly!
My mother didn't mind her name, except that nobody ever used it, and though she was fine with Bea, she was tiny and pretty and mostly got Beattie! If she'd lived to meet her granddaughter, I think she might have let us use Beatrice as a mn, but nothing else. However, she didn't and we both wanted to honour her, and did.
My daughter is happy with her name and the meaning, and chooses to go by Bea. She finds that Afrikaans-speaking people tend to assume her name is 'really' Beatrix, and/or to pronounce it Beetrice and her nn as Bee. But she sorts them out very swiftly!
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More like Beer, actually, but without the -r, and only by Afrikaans-speaking people. In English, here, Bea does indeed = Bee. Just another example of why it would be nice to be able to use real phonetic symbols on this site, but I for one would have to do a lot of revision if it ever happens.
Bee-uh is more like the German pronunciation, and I use it sometimes: not sure why, as my German's pretty rudimentary and she doesn't speak it at all.
Bee-uh is more like the German pronunciation, and I use it sometimes: not sure why, as my German's pretty rudimentary and she doesn't speak it at all.
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