So NC pronounces it correctly? ;-)
You may know that Edward Teach considered Beaufort, NC, his home port.
When I went back to see my daughter graduate Marine Corps boot camp on Parris Island, my girlfriend and I spent the week driving around. Beaufort is not far from P.I. and I called it Bo-fort and she called it BeU-fort.
correct
NC is English
SC is French. French Huguenots settled the area. Par(r)is Island was named by them, as was Port Royal.
Strangely enough, Beaufort itself was founded by an Englishman, John Barnwell, who had settled in Port Royal after the Williamites defeated the Jacobites in Irelan.
(Family History John Barnwell was my 6th Great Grandfather)