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Old 05-22-2009, 03:39 AM   #147
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety View Post
My fave weird way to pronounce a name is "St. John" .... here we say the actual words as in "Saint John" ... across the pond, they say "Sinjun" sort of all mushed together. Seems to be a habit of both the Americans and the English ... just put a bunch of letters together and then pronounce them any hell the way you want.

Gives us something to complain about between elections.
"St. John" is only "sinjun" when it's somebody's surname. In all other situations it's "Saint John", as you would expect.
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