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in reply to a message by erb816
I have never heard Berenice and Bernice pronounced in the same way. What is the point of using the spelling of one and the pronunciation of the other?
Bernice has never appealed to me as a name at all; I just don't like the sound of it, or the inevitable Bernie nn. I do like Berenice, though it's a GP because I think that in real life it would come across as rather pretentious.
In my very brief career as an eight-year-old dance student, our elderly ballet teacher called the Bernice in my class "ber-ni-see" in a brave attempt to sound French. So no spelling can guarantee the proper pronunciation. Poor little Bernice was too intimidated, and had too many left feet, to argue back.
Bernice has never appealed to me as a name at all; I just don't like the sound of it, or the inevitable Bernie nn. I do like Berenice, though it's a GP because I think that in real life it would come across as rather pretentious.
In my very brief career as an eight-year-old dance student, our elderly ballet teacher called the Bernice in my class "ber-ni-see" in a brave attempt to sound French. So no spelling can guarantee the proper pronunciation. Poor little Bernice was too intimidated, and had too many left feet, to argue back.
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