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[Opinions] Which nickname for Beatrice?
Which nickname do you prefer? Which seems most "natural"?-- Bee
-- Bea (BEE-uh)
-- Birdie
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Bee, though I'd prefer Bea, but pronounced the same as bee. Did that make sense?!! :)
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Bee,or Bea to rhyme with Pea. Beeuh sounds like Beer in my accent.
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My Beatrice daughter goes by Bea-to-rhyme-with-pea and gets rather frothy if people try to Beeuh her - she says it makes her feel like a barmaid!Because of long-deceased Dutch royalty I suppose, Afrikaans-speaking South Africans assume that the -a in Bea is sounded as a neutral vowel, so she gets barmaided a lot.
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Bee seems the most natural to me.
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I prefer Bea. I think Trix or Trixie is also cute, at least for a child.
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I think Bee is most natural. I also like Trixie.
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Bea, Betsy could work as well though. Beatrice is a great name.
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Bea, Betsy could work as well though. Beatrice is a great name.
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I love Birdie, but I personally wouldn't use it as a nickname for Beatrice because the "ur" sound is absent from Beatrice (I'm neurotic like that!). My favorite nicknames are Bess / Bessie, Bebe, Beatty / Beattie, and Tris.
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I like Bee best.
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Bee feels most natural to me.
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I prefer Bea. The Beatrices I've known were both known as Bea (pronounced BAY-uh in Swedish). OTOH, bea is also slang for Béarnaise sauce here, but I don't think that's a problem.
Trice, pronounce treese, might work. Pronounced in Italian, TREE-cheh, it's cute, but it might not work in English.

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I know a Beatrice, and she goes by Bee. It works for her.Birdie is totally adorable but would only fit a certain kind of more free-spirited woman, imo.
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Of those three, Birdie. But I prefer Trissy over any of them.
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Triximost common NN in Germany, also Bea (Beh-ah)
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My daughter uses Bea and pronounces it Bee.I sometimes used to call her Bea, pronounced BAY-a, but I think I've stopped.My mother was mostly known as Bea like my daughter; some relatives sometimes called her Beattie though she wished they wouldn't. One of her friends used to call her Bess!Birdie seems like too much of a stretch.There's always Trixie I suppose! And when my husband was a child, one of his friends had a mother known as Trissie, which he accepted without a second thought and, in later life, conjectured that it was probably short for Beatrice. But there's no proof.
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