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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@Quoth I wouldn't take grammar too lightly. After all there is a significant difference between going down on Shannon and going down the Shannon. (As who gets wet and if getting wet is a success.  |
But Shannon could be a person, not the river. Though properly the spelling for both is Sionna (or similar), who was a "river goddess". Still used as Sionna and Shannon for first names and Shannon is a common surname here.
An "s" is Irish is almost always an sh sound, and once had a dot above to indicate it. But unlike mh, gh, dh, ch etc, the undotted s was so rare the dot got left off. Later the dots replaced by h (typesetting and later typewriters), so the letter i originally had no dot so as to avoid confusion with í.
I don't take grammar lightly, but there are trivially obviously wrong cases that current grammar checkers miss and correct usage they flag as wrong. The context and kind of writing (fiction, report, project proposal) is important. Compared to spelling checking as you type (which can be wrong or miss typos), grammar checking is best off while typing and then review later with spell check and pinch of salt. Then proof read a copy on eink and mark up with big highlights for context.