Subj : Re: SEAN, not SHAWN
To   : August Abolins
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sat May 22 2021 12:05:52

-=> August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

 AA> Which reminds me..  Why does does "Sean" take the exception to
 AA> sound like "Shawn", when almost all the other <consonant>EAN
 AA> 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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