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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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You're right on Eames/eems - in its case the ea is pronounced like the ea in 'bean', and yet.

Aha, Geoff. I have trouble with that one too - it sounds like 'Joff'. Which is apparently the Old English way of pronouncing it, so I'm giving myself a pass. Either way it has too many vowels.

I used to think meme was pronounced 'mem-e', like memo but with an e. I've mostly trained myself out of that one (mostly).