Talk:Beatrice, Nebraska

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I am in the middle of a fairly major upgrade of this article, including the addition of a number of citations. To make this easier, and to facilitate future edits, I'd like to switch it over to list-defined references (see WP:LDR). Would there be any objection from previous editors to my doing this? I would of course make sure that all earlier citations were converted to the new format. --Ammodramus (talk) 02:00, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Name
After which Beatrice is Beatrice named? Opera hat (talk) 00:23, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


 * None of these; see "History" section of article. Ammodramus (talk) 02:12, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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Pronunciation
There are two ways to pronounce this name phonetically based on the phonemic transcriptions /biˈætrɪs/ bee-AT-riss, which might be represented as 1. [biˈæt.ɹɪs] versus 2. [biˈæ.tɹɪs] (or [biˈæ.tʃɹɪs] or possibly[biˈæt.tɹɪs] if you insist on /æ/ only being possible in a closed syllable), correct? It turns out I was wrong initially though, and the second one is actually how it's pronounced. What concerns me is that the "respell" transcription doesn't seem to represent that. It represents a pronunciation of [biˈæt.ɹɪs]. Any knowledge of WP respell key? (For example, I imagine we would not transcribe mattress as MAT-riss. It would have to be something like MA(T)-triss, since the second syllable is certainly triss not riss). Wolfdog (talk) 14:16, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Per LPD, both words contain a word-final :, ( in the second syllable is a conservative RP pronunciation). Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 15:23, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you mean "syllable-final"? And I've never heard of that syllabication in any dictionary... ?? (Also, is perfectly acceptable [see here, though that's not the issue I was asking about.) I'll ask editors for help at Help_talk:Pronunciation_respelling_key. Wolfdog (talk) 18:23, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I usually delete the pronunciation per MOS:LEADPRON. Is there some conflicting policy?  Thank you.  Magnolia677 (talk) 18:28, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Wait what? Why would you delete the pronunciation in this case? Wolfdog (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It's pronunciation is apparent from its spelling. Like the milk company or the princess.  How complicated can it be? Magnolia677 (talk) 18:50, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Her distant cousin Eugenie, less apparent. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't know about you, but I've never heard Beatrice pronounced /biˈætrɪs/. The standard pronunciation is /ˈbiːətrɪs/ and I've also heard among my NY relatives and perhaps others /ˈbiːtrɪs/. Wolfdog (talk) 21:41, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Please accept my apology, you are correct. It is indeed a wonky pronunciation, see . Magnolia677 (talk) 23:35, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No need to apologize! Wolfdog (talk) 19:17, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

I recall now that we've already had this conversation a few years ago here and also Help_talk:Pronunciation_respelling_key/Archive_4, with no real outcome. Wolfdog (talk) 11:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Syllabification is normally omitted in IPA, so I don't understand why this is an issue at all. We can just not mark it. Nardog (talk) 11:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link. Again, you can see the archived chat for my reasons why: /tr/ midword can leave a reader with phonetic ambiguity. Wolfdog (talk) 11:18, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The archive chat is about respelling while what you edited is IPA. There is no ambiguity when there is no morphological boundary. That's like saying /t/ leaves a reader with ambiguity as to whether it represents [t], [ɾ], or [ʔ]. Well, duh, that's determined by position. If that's an issue then virtually all phonemic transcriptions are problematic. Nardog (talk) 11:24, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I understand all this. My point is /biˈæ.trɪs/ (or /biˈætr.ɪs/ in Well's analysis) is pronounced differently from /biˈæt.rɪs/, and not providing the syllable break may leave readers uncertain which way to lean. I was intending to help readers with this having just reread some old Wells stuff. Wolfdog (talk) 11:34, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Syllabification wouldn't resolve the ambiguity. In fact CEPD does (and most linguists would AFAIU) syllabify e.g. citrus as /ˈsɪt.rəs/. That's what Collins & Mees mean by "running counter to current thinking in phonology"; in phonology, it's taken as axiomatic that no two words differ in syllabification alone. It's not a syllable boundary that blocks the affrication; it's a morphological boundary.
 * I can see indicating the syllable boundary where /tr/ is not affricated, as in /ˈbɪt.reɪt/ for bitrate, to call readers' attention to the lack of affrication, as no one would syllabify it otherwise and /ˈbɪt#reɪt/ wouldn't be understood as well. But indicating the syllable boundary where /tr/ is affricated doesn't help because not only do there exist competing ideas for where the boundary should be, but /biˈæt.rɪs/ is a totally legitimate (if not the most common!) way to syllabify the affricated pronunciation. Nardog (talk) 04:01, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Huh! Interesting. I'd've assumed that "current thinking in phonology" would try to align syllabification with phonological clarity (or sometimes even phonetic) at the expense of morphology, etymology, etc. I'm a little baffled by how contentious syllabification still is, but thanks -- I appreciate your background knowledge. Wolfdog (talk) 11:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)