I had an English teacher in middle school who named her son Sean, pronounced like “seen,” and she always complain about how people always pronounced it like “Shawn.”
Personally, I think it’s a tad rude to name your child with an uncommon spelling as it’s just setting then up for a lifetime of minor annoyances. But to use a fairly common variant and insist on a non-standard pronunciation is far worse.
I had an English teacher in middle school who named her son Sean, pronounced like “seen,” and she always complain about how people always pronounced it like “Shawn.”
Personally, I think it’s a tad rude to name your child with an uncommon spelling as it’s just setting then up for a lifetime of minor annoyances. But to use a fairly common variant and insist on a non-standard pronunciation is far worse.
100% agree with your argument but I’ll never not see the name “Sean” and immediately think “Seen” rather than “Shawn”
Man, that’s fucked up. I’m sorry, but that English teacher of yours is just a malevolent human being.
Does someone remember the story about the one her mother wrote “La-Da”?
It’s obviously pronounced Ladashda…