<<It's French. And if it's French it's pronounced
BO-lee-you
with the last two syllables kind of run together
and the "you" coming out clipped and nasally and more like
"yuh".>.
Unfortunately, the English, and to an even more dismaying degree the American
ex-colonials, have a fondness for perverting correct pronounciation. Your
statement is correct as far as it goes, but the original poster referred to
the Beaulieu in Blighty, not France.
The French shudder at the pronounciation that English speakers give to such
places as Des Moines and New Orleans, and a Burgundian native would spit up
his chablis at the way you say 'Macon', rhyming it with 'bacon'. But hey - I
guess the natives can say the name of their own towns whatever way they want
to, n'est-ce pas?
Bill S.
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