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?

Dylan is more like "dull-an", it's not "dill" at all in Welsh.

Seems not

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlyn_Rees

Have a crack at Siobhan OP or Aoife!!

Reece and Dillan is how Rhys and Dylan are pronounced.

Shaaahn.

And Rhys would have the rolled R and a distinct "h" being pronounced. e.g listen to the pronunciation of Rhys here:

www.bbc.co.uk/wales/livinginwales/sites/howdoisay/names/index.shtml?rh

Sharn

Rhys has a softer R sound than Rees - almost hRees. Same with Rhian, and Dylan should correctly be DULLan.

Reece and Dillun. How else would you pronounce them?

Rhys and Dylan and Reece and Dillun and two different names. Rhys is RH-uus and Dylan is Duh-lan.

I'm im in Ireland we pronounce it she-in

"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?"

Ooh wouldn't that be lovely!

YeTalkShiteHen sorry but you’re username is apt here. Reece and Dillan are Anglicised versions of Rhys and Dylan, but they are not pronounced the same, not correctly anyway.

This Siân gives up!

But if you don't pronounce the R why put it into a word (that doesn't have an R silent or otherwise) when describing how it's said?

Padparadscha fair enough I stand corrected.

No need to be so fucking rude though eh?

Have a crack at Siobhan OP or Aoife

Or even Niamh and Tadhg

Tbh in the 80s Sean was aparently difficult

I love Tadhg, it was on my list for DS2 until we realised he’d spend his whole life correcting people.

People trying to explain it using "ar" are trying to indicate a long "a" as in "father" rather than a short "a" as in "cat". Usually because they don't realise that in some accents the "r" would be strongly pronounced, and therefore be confusing.

I used to work with a Sian and she pronounced it Shan. In Scotland if that makes a difference.

No need to be so fucking rude though eh?

Sorry if you took that the wrong way, no need to be aggressive! God knows I had plenty of similar jokes about my previous username, kinda expected when we’re (very rarely) wrong and our usernames are calling to be taken the mick out of. However, genuinely didn’t mean offence.

just remembered a lady i worked with called sharon pronounced shayr-ron rhyming with hair-on

Have a crack at Siobhan OP or Aoife

Shan

Sharn ??? Really!!!

@Deadringer because hundreds of words have "ar" in them and we pronounce it as aah in those words so to a non-rhotic speaker ar = ah. It's even taught in schools. If you ask my 7 year old to write a digraph which makes the sound aah, he will write ar every time. Ah is much less common in English and can be pronounced a couple of ways.