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I believe that until recently the great majority of people in the UK pronounced Maurice the same as "Morris", while Americans tended to say "maw-REESE", closer to the original French. There is a similar contrast with Bernard; in the UK that name is normally "BURR-nerd", but in the USA it is normally "burr-NARD".

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It is quite possible, though, that with the distribution of American media around the world, that some people in England are now using the American pronunciations of these names.