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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[–] IronicDeadPan 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My American accent pronounces it "Shove-on".

[–] GombeenSysadmin 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There’s meant to be a fada over the a (á), so it’s definitely meant to be a longer vowel sound.

Take the name Sean for example. Spelled like that it’s actually pronounced shan, and means old. The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán

[–] TheRealKuni 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán

And, fun fact, is the Irish version of the Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן) from which we get John and Jean and Jehan and Johan and Shane and Juan and many other variants!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Everybody's named John. All the way back. There is only one name, just lots of different spellings and pronunciations.