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HelpRe: This name is oddly English....
in reply to a message by Bear
I first read "Jane Eyre" at the age of about ten, and I thought that the character of St John's name was, you know, Saint John. I considered it a strange, unwieldy name. It wasn't for quite some time, until I saw a television adaptation, that I realized that it was pronounced Sinjin. I just don't think that it would occur to an American.
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I thought the same thing about that character as a child. I didn't know differently until high school.
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It wouldn't occur to me. I never pronounce St or Saint /sin/, or John /jin/. That's just against all rules of pronunciation and spelling I've ever learned.
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