Is This Guy For Real?????

[andy-hughes]

I searched the net for the correct pronunciation of 'Beaulieu', Pricilla Presley's maiden name - I am presenting a Cruise Talk about Elvis and I need my pronunciations to be accurate.

I got the pronunciation I needed, but have a listen to the guy who gave it to me!

Does anyone seriously talk like this in real life???????

[barry1010]

Sounds like a computer generated voice to me, not up to the standards of Alexa and Siri

[bookbinder]

It's pronounced 'byoo-lee'.

[andy-hughes]

bookbinder - I'm not so sure.

I heard a clip of Elvis saying it, and he pronounced it "Bowlew" which is something like Mr Alien said it was pronounced in French.

And if that 'guy' is a computer - why did they make him sound as though English is his second language - his first being Martian!!!!

[piggynose]

arent we lucky to have fluent francophiles on AB?

[MargoTester]

Bewley is the usual pronunciation

[naomi24]

I don’t know how Americans pronounce it but the English pronounce it as bookbinder says.

[gingejbee]

Yes, there's the "real" French way, the nativized British English way...but also (possibly a few) American English versions!

[MargoTester]

Andy - if you google 'how to pronounce Priscilla Beaulieu' there is a video of Elvis saying it and it's totally different . Sorry I can't post it

[Atheist]

Lady Beauchamp, the late occupier of Madresfield Court, was known as Lady 'Beecham'. She herself was Danish and I don't remember how she pronounced it, in fact I don't think she ever needed to pronounce it any more than the late Queen had to explain who she was.

[youngmafbog]

Most folk round here call it Bulee. As in the station and Motor museum.

[andy-hughes]

I'm inclined towards the French pronunciation, since that is how I have heard Elvis say it.

[MargoTester]

I guess you could give both pronunciations and explain

[andy-hughes]

Margo - // I guess you could give both pronunciations and explain //

I hadn't thought of that, wonderful idea, thank you!

[MargoTester]

You're welcome and thank you :-)

[pastafreak]

Have you seen this Andy?

https://www.howtopronounce.com/priscilla-beaulieu

[Peter Pedant]

Bewley is the usual pronunciation - - - in English

remember in the Land of the free - there is a uni called berkeley and not Barkley - so left wing in the 70s it was nicknamed Berserkly

and the singer Dionne War-wick
and if you want the english pronunciation then you spell it Warrick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Dourdan

Hey Gary, how do you spell c-o-c-a-i..... see the article

Featherstonhaugh ( Fanshawe) is pronounced as it looks in Oireland

[MargoTester]

Pasta that was the one I referred to at 16.10 which I couldn't post so thanks :-)

[pastafreak]

Haha Margo...I didn't see the Elvis pronunciation...I went straight to the one at the top of the page.

[THECORBYLOON]

He has done a lot of these pronunciation videos and he sounds French to me.

[Barsel]

I would pronounce it Boo-lay.