Thread: Brontė or Bronti?
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Old 02-05-2016, 05:37 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Araucaria View Post
I assume just there you mean "two syllables", Bob? I don't see how Brunty could ever be pronounced as a single syllable.
Ooops - yes.

I also came across a reference that the family was also known as "Prunty". There is also a suggestion in a Wikipedia article on Patrick that he admired Horatio Nelson, one of whose titles was "Duke of Bronte", Bronte being a town and Duchy in Sicily.

This BBC item from 2005 gives an independent view of this name change :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/cultur...e_nelson.shtml

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