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If Shaun, Sean and Shawn are all pronounced the same than why is Dean not pronounced Dawn?
If Shaun, Sean and Shawn are all pronounced the same than why is Dean not pronounced Dawn?
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Would you prefer Sean Bean to be pronounced Seen Been?
Dean has roots in both old english and greek and Shawn Sean and Shaun are irish.
Wait until you hear about how many different ways “ough” is pronounced in English. For example… though, through, cough, rough, plough, ought, borough.
Sean is an Irish name and it therefore carries slightly different pronunciation. Shaun and Shawn are pronounced the way the average American or British person would think they’re pronounced – they probably spelt it this way for that reason.
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The vagaries of the English language.
Reading your post makes me confuse also.
But Don and Dawn are
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I DONT KNOW.
Michael McIntyre did a who bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69UlVQpYwUE
Lean or Lawn
Dean is from ‘Murrrrica
Shaun, Sean, and Shawn are just gallic ways of saying John. There isn’t a J sound in Gallic languages, so they use an SH.
Dean and Dawn are separate words with separate origins. English isn’t like other languages where is strict grammatical rules, English came about by fusing other languages together, which is why it is inconsistent but flexible.