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- pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . .
Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet)
- Why do we pronounce Dean as diːn but Sean as ʃɒn ?
18 Sean is an Irish name, and so follows a completely different set of rules Siobhan is another Irish name with a very non-English pronunciation
- Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John?
Commenting 12 years later… From the perspective of descriptive linguistics, I would say that "Thanks John" is used by native speakers, moreso "Thanks John!" When you use it, don't use a comma if in that context you wouldn't say it that way—if there would be no pause between "thanks" and "John", otherwise use a comma if there would be a pause
- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . .
You may need something like "our Sean" as there is more than one person in the world called "Sean", but there is only (normally) one person that anyone calls "Dad"
- What is the proper way to say possesive with person X and self?
Possible Duplicate: My wife and I #39;s seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" be
- You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information
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- and me or me and. . . - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: ldquo;Me and my wife rdquo; or ldquo;my wife and me rdquo; I keep seeing that it's just courtesy to put yourself last in a list of nouns eg "They went to the game with S
- Difference between sleeping with Sean Parker and sleeping on Sean . . .
1 Sleep on is a play of words here You didn't know Sean Parker when you saw him -- you must have been sleeping all this while (you were unaware of developments related to Sean Parker)
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