Message: "Pronunciation of Charlotte?"

Pronunciation of Charlotte?

by PurpleManners

5/30/2016, 4:57 AM

A while ago I was talking to someone and a person by the name of Charlotte (the princess, to be precise) came up. My conversation partner was surprised to hear me pronounce the name as Tyar-lotte (like Charles). They said that the name is never pronounced like that. I thought this to be wrong, but when we looked it up I saw that I indeed cannot find a registered pronunciation of the name with a Ty-sound.

The thing is, English is not my first language; I know a large part of names or vocabulary from TV. I'm convinced that I recall hearing someone pronounce it the way I do on TV somewhere.

So my question is, does anyone else ever hear the name pronounced with a Tch instead of a Sh-sound? Is this just a mistake I made in remembering?

- Purple

Thinking of...
* Gwen ~ Lucia ~ Nova ~ Raven ~ Seren *
* Alexander ~ Eirian ~ Dante ~ Roan ~ Zeno *

#Charlotte #pronunciation

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- ClaudiaS +3

5/30/2016, 7:02 AM

Charlotte is virtually always pronounced with SH- in English; I can't recall ever hearing it any other way.

If you look up Charlotte in this database, you will see that all the listed pronunciations begin with SH-.

This message was edited 5/30/2016, 7:03 AM

- PurpleManners +2

5/30/2016, 12:07 PM

Ah my apologies, I meant it the other way around. That was careless of me, I'll edit it.

- ClaudiaS +1

5/30/2016, 8:45 PM

To answer your revised question, if an English-speaker pronounces Charlotte with a hard Ch- as in Charles, that is very much the exception. As I stated, I have never heard this myself.

- Fiammetta (lady murasaki)

5/31/2016, 12:06 AM

Me neither. I'm assuming it's the influence of the French pronounciation, in which both Charles and Charlotte have a Sh- sound.

This message was edited 5/31/2016, 12:07 AM

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