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?

Comments

[effex]

It's the 'ea', I think - it's gotta be a victim of English's quirky evolution, there's no other way to see 'sea' and read 'shaw'.

[brewsternorth]

Damn those crafty Gaels and their wicked way with vowels!

It took me being corrected by someone else (><) to know how to pronounce "elegiac" correctly. Emphasis on the "i" rather than on the "le".