Brontë

Bronte English + family thumb|A circa 1860 portrait of Patrick Brontë, the patriarch of the Brontë family who originated the surname Etymology Used by Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) as a rendering of en Brunty, en Prunty, an Anglicization of the en ga Ó Proinntigh descendant of a person named ga Proinnteach Generous, with the diaeresis over the terminal ⟨e⟩ to indicate that the name has two syllables. He first registered in 1802 at St John’s College, Cambridge, as Branty or Brunty, later Brontë, and formally changed the spelling in adult life. Multiple theories exist to account for the change, including that he may have wished to hide his humble origins. As he would have been familiar with classical Greek as a man of letters, he may have chosen the name after en grc βροντή thunder. One view, which biographer Clement Shorter proposed in 1896, is that he adapted his name to associate himself with Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, who was also Duke of Bronte (itself also of same Greek origin). Pronunciation en /ˈbɹɒn.ti/ RP en /ˈbɹɑn.ti/ GA en ɒnti 2 en Bron të Proper noun + en extinct Irish borne by a 19th-century literary family. 26 September 2024 Mark Brown Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey https://web.archive.org/web/20241005015820/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/bronte-sisters-dots-names-corrected-westminster-abbey An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used. en male surnames. Derived terms en Brontean Brontëan Brontësque Anagrams en benort Berton Breton betorn