To ask how you would pronounce this name?

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Hi all,

Sorry if this is the wrong place:

My little sister is expecting her first child and if it is a girl wants to call her “Sian”.

She sent it to me in a text and I replied “What - like See-Ann?” And she told me I was being daft.

So how would you pronounce such a name?

I've never heard of 'non-rhotic.
I have heard of RP- received pronunciation.

Sharn. Pretty standard name and spelling. Have known 5 or 6 and none were welsh.

For the people saying Shan is that an a like in cat or pan? I would say Shahn. However, in my accent Shahn and Sharn would sound the same. I have been made aware by previous Mn threads that for people with rhotic accents they sound completely different.

"Could we do one or these threads without people with rhotic accents pretending that they don’t know that people with non-rhotic accents prounounce ‘ar’ and ‘ah’ identifically in the middle of words?"

"Ha ha, this!"

Yes, this. Most English people do not pronounce the r in a digraph in words (including "word") because it's not common to use rhotic pronunciation. Scots and large swathes of America DO pronounce the r in a digraph in words because they DO use rhotic pronunciation.

So for most English people, Sharn and Shahn are pronounced the same. Shan would be a short a, like in cat.

See-Ann or maybe Shin 🤔

Why do people do this to their children. Bleh.

Shahn.

Sharn.

I would have said See Anne too.

MaAnandSheela - what, give them a very common Welsh name?

Dave

If you want the long a, it should have a little hat over the a. Without the accent it would rhyme with van.

Shan as in pan.

Sharn. I'm amazed at the people who haven't heard of this name -it's not exactly unusual

Sharn if you put random Rs in words

I didn't want to be rude, but you did it for me

Sharn

Sharn. I went to school with someone who’s parents had only seen it written down so called her See-Ann. She was forever correcting people 🙈.

Sharn

Shaan.

Again....this is my name and no one calls me it with the r in it!!

The r is to indicate the phonetics - it's the sound you doubt "say" the R.

Shahn
Shaaaaarn

Not like a hard R (as in Sharon for e.g.)

Not really sure what's complicated here

Sharn. My friend is a Sian and she is always called See-Ann when she goes to America so it might not be obvious if you've never seen the name before.

It's pronounced to rhyme with Laugharne, obviously ;)

(Definitely not See-Ann or Sigh-Ann)

@MorrisZapp 😆

So how do you pronounce it @tinytemper66 ?

Sounds like "Barn"

Here you go listen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LtcW0SAcQ