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02/11/24 4:01:20 PM
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k1zzl3_82
02/11/24 5:35:56 PM
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We don't say sheet when saying seat
We don't say sheal when talking about seals

What gives

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Crimsoness
02/11/24 5:36:42 PM
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The same way sugar means shugar

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DrizztLink
02/11/24 5:37:04 PM
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Wait until you meet Oisn.

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FolkenRawr
02/11/24 5:37:31 PM
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It's Irish

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Irony
02/11/24 5:38:08 PM
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Crimsoness posted...
The same way sugar means shugar
You don't pronounce it soo-gar?

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HylianFox
02/11/24 5:39:31 PM
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Seen Been
Shawn Bawn

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Kradek
02/11/24 5:40:29 PM
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Here you go, TC, somebody else has already had this thought:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/217012/why-is-sean-pronounced-shawn

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ai123
02/11/24 5:40:30 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Wait until you meet Oisn.
Never mind Meadhbh and Caoimhe.


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xGhostchantx
02/11/24 5:56:28 PM
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S is followed by a slender vowel (, e, i, ) so the S is palatized to Sh.

Sen - Shaun
San - Shane
Sassanach - Saxon

Conas at t!

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Touch
02/11/24 5:57:30 PM
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The

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Pikachuchupika
02/11/24 5:57:52 PM
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English definitely has some weird pronunciations for certain words.
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HylianFox
02/11/24 6:03:44 PM
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Pikachuchupika posted...
English definitely has some weird pronunciations for certain words.

That's because English is bloody tart that sleeps around with every other language and then steals their wallets before they wake up.

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xGhostchantx
02/11/24 7:04:46 PM
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Pikachuchupika posted...
English definitely has some weird pronunciations for certain words.


HylianFox posted...
That's because English is bloody tart that sleeps around with every other language and then steals their wallets before they wake up.

Not exactly. Latinates and Greekisms were never rendered in native orthography. They're the best approximation of foreign words in English with little to no changes in spelling. We can actually pin this on a specific person -- John Dryden. English wasn't Latin enough for his liking. He's also the reason for preposition tomfoolery which thankfully the Anglophone world now largely rejects. Most Latinates and Greek words still have native words, they just sound clunky because it's no the 15th and earlier centuries anymore; i.e. police > lawman. doctor > healer, tank > guthwagon (or guthwain) etc.

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Dark_Arbron
02/11/24 7:12:43 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Wait until you meet Oisn.

Roisin and Aisling as well.
And Cait Sith, which is only controversial because people are doggedly determined to remain uneducated.

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Billyionaire
02/11/24 7:13:19 PM
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It's Irish you uncultured ninny.

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FL81
02/12/24 1:33:17 AM
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ai123 posted...
Never mind Meadhbh and Caoimhe.
Eoghan

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Ricemills
02/12/24 1:36:28 AM
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Cait Sith

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GranQroppoop
02/12/24 2:09:01 AM
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I was shocked when I learned Xochitl is not pronounced zo-chit-al.

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Zwijn
02/12/24 2:13:02 AM
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Beren leren bevers kevers smeren.
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Torgo
02/12/24 2:14:25 AM
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No one tell TC about Seamus

https://youtu.be/bhUW7A3qjY4

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Tyranthraxus
02/12/24 2:16:45 AM
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It's Irish, just like how Siobhan = Shee-vawn

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BloodMoon7
02/12/24 2:23:45 AM
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He's real McCool guy.

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Fluttershy
02/12/24 2:28:33 AM
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It's Irish, just like how Siobhan = Shee-vawn

aoife is another. i knew an aoife.

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bigtiggie23
02/12/24 2:50:54 AM
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Well we know Shawn Michaels =/= Sean Michaels.

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KCJ5062
02/12/24 3:00:24 AM
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Wait until people find out that Phoebe is pronounced fee-bee and not fo-eeb.

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Tyranthraxus
02/12/24 3:01:12 AM
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KCJ5062 posted...
Wait until people find out that Phoebe is pronounced fee-bee and not fo-eeb.
Everyone knows that because of friends

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Ricemills
02/12/24 3:03:26 AM
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Why Sean Bean not pronounced as Shawn Bawn or Seen Been?

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TendoDRM
02/12/24 3:12:52 AM
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Fluttershy posted...
It's Irish, just like how Siobhan = Shee-vawn

aoife is another. i knew an aoife.

Were they related to Asoiaf?

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SiO4
02/12/24 3:27:16 AM
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I thought they both were another way of saying Iva.

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Fluttershy
02/12/24 3:28:21 AM
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Were they related to Asoiaf?

pronounced 'asso-eef'

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_Valigarmanda_
02/13/24 1:48:04 AM
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bigtiggie23 posted...
Well we know Shawn Michaels =/= Sean Michaels.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f348b312.jpg

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Naysaspace
02/13/24 1:51:20 AM
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what is this, 1965? why all the racism towards the irish?

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