The Pronounciation of Poiriau - Bellefeuille

The pronounciation of Poiriau - Bellefeuille is tricky to someone unfamiliar with the French language.

The Poiriau name, and all its variations such as Poiriot, Poirieau, Poiriaux, Poiriault, and Poirieault sound just like the French "Poirot" of Agatha Christie fame, but with an "i" between the "r" and "au", "ot", or "eau" suffix.

The first syllable of "Bellefeuille" sounds like "belle" or "bell". The "feu" sort of rhymes with the English "the". The last part "ille" sounds a lot like "ya".

Thus, Bellefeuille is pronounced kind of like "belle" "fe" "ya".

The syllable emphasis would be on the "feuille".

Here too the emphasis is on the last syllable, "au", pronounced "o".

The combined surname Poiriau-Bellefeuille used to be written in French as "Poiriau dit Bellefeuille".

The "dit" word was pronounced as "dee", as in the fourth letter of the alphabet. Thus, the full name was pronounced as Poiriau dee Bellefeuille.

Often times, the French surname addendum of "dit" is today enclosed in parenthesis, as in Poiriau (dit) Bellefeuille.