As a poc, I guess I was lucky to be born with a plain name. We should pick up our pitchforks and go after her parents for having the audacity to be original.
I knew a guy once who liked to drop the first e and lean on the o: b'yaaaahn-say.
Seems to me pronouncing it bay-ahn-SAY makes it a French verb or adjective. To say that someone is beyoncé (interestingly, this is in the masculine), would be to say that he has been beyonced, which I'm increasingly convinced is some kind of wall or window treatment.
Les fenêtres sont ici beyoncées de satin bleu.
The windows here are beyonced with blue satin.
I'm glad this came up, as all of you have it wrong (understandably): it's Italian, not French. Thus, bee-yon-CHAY. Rolls right off the tongue, and it's a very pretty name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEr0BPOfV…
Best version of Single Ladies. Captain Jack!
Bee - YAWN - say.
Seems to me pronouncing it bay-ahn-SAY makes it a French verb or adjective. To say that someone is beyoncé (interestingly, this is in the masculine), would be to say that he has been beyonced, which I'm increasingly convinced is some kind of wall or window treatment.
Les fenêtres sont ici beyoncées de satin bleu.
The windows here are beyonced with blue satin.
B'YON-say