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?

Anoisagusaris maybe we should suggest a go at pronouncing your user name words, anois agus aris

Wouldn’t that be interesting!!

Wouldn’t want it happening all the time, just now and again

Anish ahgus ahreesh is the closest I can get

I’m an English Siân
I say it like Sharn

Bet the op is sorry she asked.

Pretty good Dramaalpaca!

Also I’m in my 30s, it’s been around a while. Actress Sian Phillips is 85!

anoisagusaris
I'm Irish and I would say ar like a pirate
A lot of English accents pronounce ar like ah
So the word part in an English accent would be pahth

I hope I've got that the right way round

”I say Barn as Bar with an n at the end.”

So do we! But bar is pronounced the same as bah or baa!

Thank you Anois

Shawn. No r. I knew one now 18yo.

Actually in Welsh we slightly sound the i , so it isn’t Sharn or Shahn. (Pedant). Anyway, quite an odd choice if you aren’t Welsh ?

Shahn. Like khan.

flowery the pp means they pronounce the N at the end of barn so its sounds nothing like baa

I don't think my accent has a long a sound and a short a sound. Someone used the example up thread of cat and father having different a sounds, short and long. But to me they're the same.

So, on that basis, I would pronounce Sian as Shan because I have no idea how to make different A sounds!

I quite realise what she meant. Rhotic and non rhotic speakers all pronounce barn as bar with an n. It’s just for rhotic speakers like that poster, the R in bar is sounded out, whereas for non rhotic speakers bar + n is the same as bahn or baan

Bahn to me sounds like the person has a lisp! The same sound as baawn. Completely different to baan which is a flat long ‘a’.

Oh and I’ve only heard of ‘rhotic’ on here.

The eastenders actress thst was murdered by her husband was pronounced See Anne.But my cousin's name is Sian , so i do know how Sian should be proniunced

Ok flowery I misread your post
Sorry

Hold on, people saying Sharn aren't pronouncing the r? WTF? Irish here too.

Another Scot here and I would say
Sha-an x

Not if you have a non rhotic accent, the majority accent in England.

But lots of people on MN are rhotic speakers (most Scottish, Irish, and Americans, and even some English). This "r" business always causes confusion.

pebblespony No its an invisible R
Isn't the English language great!

No, no-one is pronouncing the R. For much of the UK, ar is how they automatically transcribe long A sounds when trying to break words down into syllables for discussions like this.