Hello Shawn Highfield!

** On Saturday 22.05.21 - 06:03, Shawn Highfield wrote to Sean Dennis:

The iron fist once came out when someone spelled your name
incorrectly. It's "SEAN, not SHAWN!!! - LIFE TIME
BAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" LOL!

Which reminds me.. Why does does "Sean" take the exception to
sound like "Shawn", when almost all the other <consonant>EAN
versions are pronounced with the long "e" = EE

BEAN = bAWn? nope, it's = bEEn
DEAN = dAWn? nope, it's = dEEn
JEAN = jAWN? nope, it's = jEEn
LEAN = lAWn? nope, it's = lEEn
MEAN = mAWn? nope, it's = mEEn
WEAN = wAWn? nope, it's = wEEn

SEAN = sEEn? <G>

if not, then

SEAN = shAWn, which implies SEAN = SHAWN :)

I hope this has shone some light on the matter.

oh no..

shone = shAWN? nope, it's = shOHn
bone = bAWN? nope, it's = bOHn
lone = lAWn? nope, it's lOHn
mone = maWN? nope it's mUHn, obviously!
none = nAWn? nope it's nUHn , another obvious one!
pone = pAWN? nope, it's pOHn
rone = rAWN? nope, it's rOHn
tone = tAWN? nope, it's tOHn
zone = zAWN? nope, it's zOHn

Clear as mud.












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August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

Which reminds me.. Why does does "Sean" take the exception to
sound like "Shawn", when almost all the other <consonant>EAN
versions are pronounced with the long "e" = EE

Simple: my first name is not English. It's Irish. English doesn't have the "sha" sound assigned to a "se" letter combination. Sean is the Gaelic form
of John.

Any other spelling of "Sean" is just a phonetic spelling of Sean. Like
other Irish names are phonetically spelled in English. Another example that comes to mind is Ceilidh which becomes Kaylee (amongst many other spellings)
in English.

After nearly 50 years of my name being misspelled and mispronounced, I'm
used to it.

Later,
Sean

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Re: SEAN, not SHAWN
By: August Abolins to Shawn Highfield on Sat May 22 2021 07:17 am

Howdy,

Which reminds me.. Why does does "Sean" take the exception to
sound like "Shawn", when almost all the other <consonant>EAN
versions are pronounced with the long "e" = EE

It's one of those quirks of life - or something to keep us on our toes.

My name "deon" - if anybody writes it without asking me, 95% of the time they write "Dion".

I remind them, its "Deon" like "Neon", *not* "Dion" like "Lion" :)

...oEoN
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August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

Clear as mud.

I've saved that message for future discussions. ;)

Shawn

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Hello Deon George!

** On Sunday 23.05.21 - 14:11, Deon George wrote to August Abolins:

I remind them, its "Deon" like "Neon", *not* "Dion" like "Lion" :)

I never thought of other "like..." words for the misspelling of
your name, but lion is interesting. It's probably because I was
familiar with your neon word example.

It's interesting that I've never heard the name Celine Dion
pronounced "see lain dai on" or "see lane die on".


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