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Pronunciation Poll
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: mariez on April 23, 2008, 09:48:51 pm ---Nah, you're not wrong, Susie! My mother-in-law pronounces her name Ye-von because that's the way her mother always pronounced it (and she likes the way it sounds better, too). But, technically speaking it should be Ee-von. After all, Yves St. Laurent is not Ye-ves St. Laurent.
It's funny about names. I went to elementary school with a Marcia. And every year on the first day of school the teacher would pronounce it MAR-sha and she would have to correct them, because she pronounced it Mar-SEE-a. :)
Marie
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And then there are Irish names. I went around for years thinking "Sean" was 'seen' and Siobhan was "sigh-oh-bahn." LOL
Brokeback_Dev:
I voted
mariez:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 06:42:16 am ---And then there are Irish names. I went around for years thinking "Sean" was 'seen' and Siobhan was "sigh-oh-bahn." LOL
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Funny you mention "Sean." That reminds me that a few years ago there was a meterologist on MSNBC named Sean McLaughlin and I kept thinking his colleagues were mispronouncing his name because they kept introducing him as "Seen" and I couldn't understand why no one was correcting them - until I heard him pronounce his own name one day and, sure enough, he said "Seen." I just looked him up on Wikipedia and was amused to find these items listed under "Trivia" (I know it's not the most reliable of sources, but ....)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McLaughlin
Sean's name is pronounced Seen rather than the traditional pronunciation of "shawn"
Sean has a brother named Shawn.
Sean has a brother named Shea.
I wonder if Shea's name is pronounced "SHE-ah." LOL!
Marie
Brokeback_Dev:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 06:42:16 am ---And then there are Irish names. I went around for years thinking "Sean" was 'seen' and Siobhan was "sigh-oh-bahn." LOL
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Cool Leslie, my Tattoo artist's name is Siobhan. I Had never heard it before until now. She pronounces Sha-bon.
injest:
--- Quote from: brokeback_dev on April 24, 2008, 07:43:16 am ---I voted
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thats it? You ain't sharing your answers?? hmmmm...
how does Dev pronounce tomato....the mystery continues!!
;D ;)
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