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Gerinski 
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Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Offline Points: 5101 |
 Posted: May 22 2013 at 03:38 |
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In Spain you will find many people saying 'Eye-An' but then we Spanish are notorious for our poor English.
But perhaps the most confusing English name pronunciation for us is Sean, nobody understands why is it pronounced 'Shon'. Seal is pronounced 'Seel' so we think that Sean should be pronounced something like 'Seen', and you will hear most Spanish people referring to 'Seen Connery'. Incidentally, why 'pronounce' is written with 'noun' but pronunciation is written with 'nun' (according to the automatic spelling checker in this site). Shouldn't it be 'pronounciation'? or is it one of those differences between UK English and US English? |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: May 22 2013 at 04:27 |
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Sean isn't an English name or pronunciation, it is Gaelic and would have an accent over the "a" - Seán. (which makes the Spanish prounciation even worse  )Sean Bean is pronounced Shawn Been, not Seen Been or Shawn Bhawn.  Sean is (yet) another version of John so it's pronunciation has a similar derivation (the Irish are wonderful talkers but terrible spellers), hence you pronounce it more like the French "Jean" than the English "Dean" (You would not say Jeen-Claude van Damn" for example) Other "John" derived names are Ivan, Ifan, Evan, Eion, Juan, Joan, Jan, Jens, Ian, Iain, Yan, Sean, Seon, Joke, Johan, Giovanni, Gian, Ioan and Hans
The English and American-English spellings are the same for both words - the difference is because they are pronounced differently, for once this is not a case of the itenerant "u" and you say them as they are spelt - 'nounce' and 'nunc[e]' PS: Iain is pronouced exactly the same as Ian. Edited by Dean - May 22 2013 at 04:28 |
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Snow Dog
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
Posted: May 22 2013 at 05:34 |
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Same as Ian
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tamijo
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Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287 |
Posted: May 22 2013 at 05:49 |
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People in Brittan, have been drunk for 2000 years, explains everything.
In scandinavia it was even worse, we added fly agaric to the beer, thats why we had to invent extra letters :
æ ø å ö , to get the correct sound of when you talk while at the same time vomit.
Edited by tamijo - May 22 2013 at 05:54 |
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Dean
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Posted: May 22 2013 at 05:54 |
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True. If we'd been sober we'd not have let you steal the idea for little plastic interlocking toy bricks from us.
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Gerinski
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Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Offline Points: 5101 |
Posted: May 22 2013 at 05:56 |
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chopper
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Posted: May 22 2013 at 07:21 |
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Maybe you could ask your friend?
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refugee
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Posted: May 22 2013 at 07:25 |
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That would be a schwa, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa |
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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ExittheLemming
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Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: May 22 2013 at 07:31 |
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Dean is correct here as my name 'Iain' is the (Scottish) Gaelic equivalent for 'John' but is pronounced just the same way as the more common 'Ian' However, my ex wife says it's pronounced 'limp' What a strange premise for a thread  |
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Dean
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Posted: May 22 2013 at 07:44 |
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Exactly
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 22 2013 at 17:57 |
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So then who are these "Een" people I keep hearing reference to? Edited by Atavachron - May 22 2013 at 17:58 |
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Dean
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 01:49 |
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I suspect he will lose this, but I agree with him even though there is little reason for pronouncing it that way - [off the top of my head at ten to eight in the morning] the only words I can think of that starts "gi" that are pronounce "ji" are Gill, Gillian and Gist Edited by Dean - May 23 2013 at 02:14 |
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Stool Man
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 02:04 |
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In some places, the letter J is pronounced like the letter I. And the letter A is pronounced like the letter O.
This of course, means that Ian Anderson used to be the singer in Yes
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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Stool Man
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 02:08 |
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Dean, have you never seen a giant ginger giraffe? 
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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Dean
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 02:12 |
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Stool Man
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 02:38 |
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no, he's called Jim, he's a Gypsy Gigolo |
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Dean
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 03:16 |
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Must be something to do with the geometric geography of the gin soaked gem genie then.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 08:25 |
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Eye ann
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Evolver
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 08:36 |
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My middle name is Ian. My son's name is Ian.
Most, but not all, of my family (a blend of Russian, Polish and Scottish) pronounce it eye-an. Almost everyone else pronounce it ee-an (my preference). A pediatrician who treated my son when he was an infant called him ee-on.
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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chopper
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 08:51 |
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