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submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Checkmate, Chuck. ๐Ÿ‘‘

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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[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

Who has a first name of St John?

[-] stormio@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 hours ago

In Vancouver, Canada, we have a journalist named St. John Alexander who pronounces his first name as "Sinjin." I heard him say it on TV and it sounded weird. His profile even mentions it.

He's often asked about his name. St. John is originally British and is pronounced "Sinjin." His parents discovered it in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago

Pronounced Janer, I assume.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

From Wikipedia St John Pettifor Catchpool (1890โ€“1971), English Quaker relief worker St. John Ellis (1964โ€“2005), British Rugby League player St John Ervine (1883-1971), Irish writer St John Groser (1890-1966), Anglican priest and Christian socialist St John Hornby (1867โ€“1946), British businessman St John Horsfall (1910-1949), British motor racing driver St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (1856โ€“1942), British politician St John O'Neill (1741โ€“1790), Irish MP for Randalstown Saint-John Perse, pseudonym of Alexis Leger (1887โ€“1975), French poet and diplomat St John Philby (1885โ€“1960), British civil servant and explorer in Arabia

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

Weird. I never would have guessed anyone was named that.

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