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Why do the English pronounce the first name "St. John" as "sinjin" but they pronounce the last name "Saintclair" as "saint clair" (and not "sinclair")? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Checkmate, Chuck. 👑

Edit: Given the number of downvotes I'm getting, I'm guessing a lot of people have just learned that they've been pronouncing St. John wrong. Don't beat yourselves up. It's not like it's a terribly common name.

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not a single person in my insane number of years has ever said sinjin

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You don't live in Britain where:

This is a name people have.
It's pronounced like that.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I live near a village called St John's Town of Dalry and no one says sinjin nor have I heard anyone's name referred to that way.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Lived there for years and years. Never heard it pronounced that way. Strange

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Am in UK, and yeah, I've definitely heard it pronounced that way, sometimes combined with a second name, eg St John-Smith = Sinjin-Smith

I think it's a thing posh people use sometimes.