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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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Shuh-vawn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My American accent pronounces it "Shove-on".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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.

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

It actually helps a little if you realize the Russian letter В is pronounced like an English V.