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?

Sharn

The usual pronunciation in my accent west of England is sharn but then I’d pronounce Bath as Barth

Sh-ah-n. There's no r sound.

WelshRobyn have you read the thread at all?

Sh-ar-n and Sh-ah-n are pronounced the same way. You don't pronounce the r in ar or the h in ah. It's just a long aaaaaaaa. Not if you have a non rhotic accent, the majority accent in England.

Shan and Cian?!
Where I'm from Cian is pronounced Keen.. emphasis on Kee
I hate hearing it pronounced Kee Annn

Sian is a lovely name

I always thought it was like Sharn but I know someone with that name and she goes by "She-an".

Oh the r mashes a difference!

Sharn, where I come from, literally means shit.

And yes, I'm from the UK.

I don't understand why people put r's in when an 'h' does the job better and mashes sense to everyone.

Makes a difference. Dyac!

:42 ShowOfHands Sh-ar-n and Sh-ah-n are pronounced the same way. You don't pronounce the r in ar or the h in ah. It's just a long aaaaaaaa. Not if you have a non rhotic accent, the majority accent in England

I'm even more confused, if the R or the H aren't actually pronounced why are people advising it's pronounced Sharn/Shahn, why not just write Shan so people can read it phonetically how to pronounce it and not have to guess at accents?

"Rhymes with Barn. Sian is not pronounced See-ann."

Well it's not Sharn either is it?

I know a Sian pronounced See-Ann do you are not daft!

”I'm even more confused, if the R or the H aren't actually pronounced why are people advising it's pronounced Sharn/Shahn, why not just write Shan so people can read it phonetically how to pronounce it”

Er, because “Shan” isn’t how it is pronounced.... that would rhyme with can Dan Stan man tan. Sharn/Shahn indicates a long A sound.

You pronounce is Sian... So sharn or shan. Its a pretty well used name.

why not just write Shan so people can read it phonetically how to pronounce it and not have to guess at accents

Because Shan phonetical rhymes with can
Sharn rhymes with barn, its a long a sound.

Which is why some people have spelt it with a a double a 'shaan'

Ah/ar are just ways of making the long a sound.

Why are people obsessed with adding an ‘r’ into pronouncing a name. It doesn’t even have an ‘r’ in it so how can you possibly pronounce it ‘sharn’??? People do it with my name also. It infuriated me. I’ve now missed the point of this whole thread...

Seems like you might not have actually read the thread Llama if you still don’t know why people are putting an R in when indicating how they pronounce the name in question.

Sian rhymes with barn.

Shon.

Although See-Ann sounds much better.

See we're all saying Sian rhymes with barn

To express this people are saying you pronounce the word sh -arn because the arn bit is to indicate the same sound as barn. B- arn Sh-arn

Sh-an sounds like can man dan pan
Sh-arn sounds like barn darn

Actually Llama - unless you pronouce llama l-am-a as in the am bit makes the same soumd as am, bam, wham.
Its l-arm-a to isnt it

The s and maybe the i is sssssh like be quiet
The a with possibly the i before is aaaaaaaaaah like the doctor wants you to do when you have a sore throat
And the n just closes it off.

Is another way of putting it. My relative's name is written Siân and has never caused her any problems.

Sharn but it is a bit odd (IMO)

Slightly off topic but every time I see the boys name Sean wrote down I want to pronounce it Seen , not Shaun .

Sharn

You were being a bit daft 😑

Im Irish and pronounce it Shaan.

The random r thing that I see in threads on how to pronounce thinks really confuses me.

I say Barn as Bar with an n at the end.
Sharn would be Sharon with the o as a pp said.

I'd write the pronunciation of Sian as Shahn.