Pardon me for contributing to the conversation, ace.
That's the same thinking that has led to the corruption in the spelling of your name by illiterati to "Shawn." Both Sean and St. John have the same geographic origin.
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Pardon me for contributing to the conversation, ace.
That's the same thinking that has led to the corruption in the spelling of your name by illiterati to "Shawn." Both Sean and St. John have the same geographic origin.
Nardpuncher
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Ugh. Thanks for that. If it makes you feel smarter...I'll pretend I didn't know that already.
Well I figured you did.
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I always thought it was "St. John Talbot", pronounced as read. I figured that his accent made it sound like "Sinjian". I had never heard of the pronunciation outside of U.S. dialects. Just because one doesn't know it's pronounced quite differently from it's appearance doesn't make one stupid or ignorant. One cannot know everything, and in my AP English courses, we never got around to it.
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Okay, that's funny.
Nardpuncher
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That's what I was saying before. I only learned of it when A View to a Kill came out in 1985 (when I was 11) It's a 'mildly' uncommon name...and will once in a blue moon come up in discussions about weird names, but some people who already know the name will not only let you know they they knew how to pronounce it, but will it you over the head with it. I foyu encounter someone outside of the UK who has never heard this name before, you just smile and say 'Yeah...wacky isn't it?"
Here you can see Stringfellow Hawke, from Airwolf, pronounce it as sinjin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yp-AikV4Y0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yp-AikV4Y0
One of the most famous sf/fantasy artists ever was J. Allen St. John, who illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs' earlier books.
Well, when a MOMMY ambassador and a DADDY ambassador love each other VERY much....
And there was Jill St. John, the first villain's moll, Molly, in 60s "Batman". But we're talking St. John as a first name.
Probably originated in France rather than Britain and was brought there by the Normans.
I agree that it could be a compelling story in its own right. In the 22nd century, Pope John Paul IV decided that his church needed living saints, and so amended the rules, The problem would later arise as to what is to be done when a designated saint falls from grace. This guy got shipped out to a planet for the discredited.
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Okay, that's funny.
The bathroom may be a shrine one day -- St. John St. John's john on St. John St.
Ambassadoria. It's this tiny nation on the Swiss/French/German border that managed to maintain its independence by being in too craggy a valley to be worth conquering most of the time, and by being close to but uninvolved with so many of the currents of history they were able to lend out their people as diplomats and communication channels among the French, German, Swiss, Italian, and Austro-Hungarian nations until they simply became indispensible for a modern nation-state.
