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I pronounce it BRAHN-tay. I think the name would work for a girl, because it is so closely associated with the Bronte sisters and rarely used on either gender.

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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." --Oscar Wilde

I've always associated Bronte with females rather than males b/c of the Bronte sisters. I prn it BRONN-tee or BRONN-teh (not quite -tay, but close) depending on how the mood strikes. :o)

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Yep, I'd day "BRONN-tay".

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Kate Suzanne
Cousin to Seamus Blair,
expected to be born on 9-18-06.

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BRAHN-tey

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which I find a bit softer than BRAWN-tay. BRAWN-tee sounds all wrong to me. Because the most famous bearers of this name were literary sisters, I think of this as a suitably feminine name, though the truth is it's a surname, and not properly male or female, really.

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My favorite combo is Veronica Bronte. I don't really care for it in the fn position.

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~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon

BRAUN-tay. It should have two dots over the e, actually. It has a technical name, but I forget what it is. And I prefer it be kept as a male name. There is a great article on namenerds.com about this that I very much agree with. I think giving a girl a masculine name is a way of telling her there's something wrong with being female, and also, once a boys' name is used on a girl, it catches, and can never be used on a boy again. How many little boys do you know named Alice?

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This message was edited 8/24/2006, 6:07 AM

either BRON-tuh or BRON-tee

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as a female name I think it would work because of the Brontë sisters, I slightly prefer it as a aboys name though

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In my 'Love, Death, and Literature' course we did a unit on the Bronte sisters, and it was always pronounced 'Brawn- tay', although this could have just been the way my professor had learned to say it, much in the same way that 'Antigone' can be pronounced 'Ant-ig-on-Knee' or 'Anti- gone'.

Bron-tay

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And it is a female name for the 3 people I know called it - pronunciation taken from the Bronte sisters (but then that's usually with an umlaut over the E, so I'm not completely sure)

I say it as Brawn-tee (rhymes with "jaunty"). I don't see how it's traditionally male. It has no steady male usage so far as I know, and I've only heard of it on females. It makes more sense to me as a girls' name, since the most obvious namesakes are women.

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I want to like it because of what it stands for, but I just can't bring myself to do so. It's the sound ... the start of brontosaurus ... and the general pretensiousness of naming a child Bronte. It's a lot to live up to! Like Monet.

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I've only ever heard it pronounced as BRON-tay, and it's used a lot where I live (Haworth is not that far away). Come to think about it I've never heard it pronounced BRON-tee around here, it's always been the BRON-tay Museum, BRON-tay Country etc.

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It's too masculine for my tastes to be used for a girl but I can see why it is because of the Bronte sisters (though there was a Bronte brother, don't forget poor, old Branwell.)

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~Louise x
~*~Top Names~*~
Charles Frederick & Isabel Primrose

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I've only heard the prn BRAWN-tay. BRAWN-tee sounds like a nn for a dinosaur or something, LoL. I don't understand why BtN lists the name as masculine because I always just thought it was the surname of three female, English writers?

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"The dog is a gentleman; I hope I go to his heaven, not man's."
- Mark Twain.

I've only ever heard it pronounced BRON-tee. It was very popular for girls in Australia in the early-to-mid 1990s, and I've never known of a male Bronte.

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I like the literary reference, but it's not a name I'd use.

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♦ Chrisell ♦

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

Go for it! It's an awesome name for a girl.

I have only ever heard it pronounced Bron-tee. It is the name of a well known beach in Sydney (the next one along from Bondi) and it is also the name of a formerly anorexic girl who is often in the news here.
I also of course think of the Bronte sisters, whose name is pronounced Bron-tee and I can only see it on a girl. But I would never use it because for me there are just too many associations.

Bron-tay. I always thought it was a female name (probably because of Emily and Charlotte Bronte).

I pronounce it BRAWN-tay, and I actually prefer it for a girl.

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I have always heard Bronte with the above pronunciation, however the site lists it as BRAHN-tee.

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I say bron-tay or bron-tee. :)

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Cassie Anne (not Cassandra!)
Fiance to Grant Stephen
Mum to Hayley Anne :)
D.O.B: 8th October, 2004