While I'm making random posts

[effex]

I'm completely incapable of pronouncing 'Sean' correctly in my head. It rhymes with 'bean' every. time. I read it. This would not normally be a problem, but Sean Cassidy is all over the recent spat of X-Men fic and it bothers me.

I have the same trouble with Eames (sounds like 'aims', strangely enough), but I've been dealing with that since History of Design and have made my peace.

Anyone else have a similar problem?

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[torachan]

Now that I've watched Inception, I have no problem pronouncing Eames the correct way in my head when I read it, but before I saw the movie (which was only fairly recently, so I was reading the name a lot before that, just because so many people on my flist are in the fandom), I never knew if it was pronounced Eems or Aims and it bugged me, because I can't read without hearing the words in my head.

[effex]

[nods] I'm not sure why my brain's so stubborn when it comes to the name - I've seen the movie, I've attended lectures on Charles and Ray Eames numerous times... I've decided to blame Ames, Iowa, which I lived near for a couple of years and is pronounced 'aimes'.