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MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: mariez on April 24, 2008, 07:45:38 am ---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
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You really have to wonder what their parents were thinking!
Back in the day, when I was working in OB, I talked a woman out of naming her baby "Placenta." She had heard the word in the delivery room and thought it was pretty. Oh my. And I did have a patient whose baby was named Female (she pronounced Fe-MAH-lee). She explained, "They named her for me at the hospital. That was the name they put on the card on her crib."
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MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: brokeback_dev on April 24, 2008, 07:45:43 am ---Cool Leslie, my Tattoo artist's name is Siobhan. I Had never heard it before until now. She pronounces Sha-bon.
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I think I read a story with a Siobahn character and read it as sigh-oh-bahn. When I finally met a real Siobhan (pronounced like you said, Sha-bon) it took me awhile to figure out what her name was and how she spelled it.
L
Brokeback_Dev:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 08:01:38 am ---I think I read a story with a Siobahn character and read it as sigh-oh-bahn. When I finally met a real Siobhan (pronounced like you said, Sha-bon) it took me awhile to figure out what her name was and how she spelled it.
L
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Yes i can see how reading it first without ever hearing it could cause problems with mispronounciation.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 08:01:38 am ---I think I read a story with a Siobahn character and read it as sigh-oh-bahn. When I finally met a real Siobhan (pronounced like you said, Sha-bon) it took me awhile to figure out what her name was and how she spelled it.
L
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Here's an Irish name for you: Seosaimhin. That's the given name of a woman who works part time where I work. Any takers on the pronunciation?
It's SOSH-a-min, with a long "o." They call her "Sosh" for short.
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 07:59:40 am ---Back in the day, when I was working in OB, I talked a woman out of naming her baby "Placenta." She had heard the word in the delivery room and thought it was pretty. Oh my. And I did have a patient whose baby was named Female (she pronounced Fe-MAH-lee). She explained, "They named her for me at the hospital. That was the name they put on the card on her crib."
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Now, if those stories came from anyone else, I would think you were pulling our legs. ;D The mother of an old friend of mine grew up in Tennessee. She used to tell a story about a neighbor back home who named her daughter Vagina because she thought it sounded pretty. ::)
--- Quote from: mariez on April 24, 2008, 07:45:38 am ---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."
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He's still around. I "seen" him on the Today show within the past year. ;D And I thought the same thing about his name until I heard him pronounce it himself! ;D
Kerry:
--- Quote from: ZK on April 23, 2008, 05:11:10 pm ---Come on Kerry tell us all how you pronounce the number 6???? ;)
....runs and ducks for cover......
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Well you should run and duck for cover, young man! ;) ;) Tut! ::)
In Oz, we pronounce six as SIX; whereas, in New Zealand, it is pronounced SUX. :-\
<Now Kerry runs and ducks for cover haha> :laugh:
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