Not a single person in my insane number of years has ever said sinjin
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You don't live in Britain where:
- This is a name people have.
- It's pronounced like that.
Lived there for years and years. Never heard it pronounced that way. Strange
Yup, Sinjin is definitely a thing.
Source: I know a St. John and he told me the right way to pronounce his name is indeed "Sinjin"
We don't as far as I know. St John is usually pronounced Saint John. Though English is weird and you might have come across a local pronunciation. Do you know where abouts in the UK that one comes from?
Oh no not in Utica
Roger Moore pronounced his alias St John Smythe as "Sinjun Smythe" in "A View To A Kill"
Perhaps not precisely "sinjin". Wikipedia gives the IPA as /ΛsΙͺndΚΙͺn/ or /-ΚΙn/ where the Κ is the g in beige or the s in pleasure so it's a bit more of a zh sound than a j sound: "sinzhin"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_(name) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
Though the English ~~is~~ are weird
Local names in Britain do my head in
I am english, in the UK. I have never heard someone say sinjin instead of saint john. The only thing I can imagine is a local accent? But id think its more like sint jin (sint jawn?)
That's not how I've heard it pronounced. Not in the north at least. The T is mute. It's "sinjin" (rhymes with Kent).
Ive never heard of Sinjin.
Who has a first name of St John?
In Vancouver, Canada, we have a journalist named St. John Alexander who pronounces his first name as "Sinjin." I heard him say it on TV and it sounded weird. His profile even mentions it.
He's often asked about his name. St. John is originally British and is pronounced "Sinjin." His parents discovered it in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.
Pronounced Janer, I assume.
From Wikipedia St John Pettifor Catchpool (1890β1971), English Quaker relief worker St. John Ellis (1964β2005), British Rugby League player St John Ervine (1883-1971), Irish writer St John Groser (1890-1966), Anglican priest and Christian socialist St John Hornby (1867β1946), British businessman St John Horsfall (1910-1949), British motor racing driver St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (1856β1942), British politician St John O'Neill (1741β1790), Irish MP for Randalstown Saint-John Perse, pseudonym of Alexis Leger (1887β1975), French poet and diplomat St John Philby (1885β1960), British civil servant and explorer in Arabia
Weird. I never would have guessed anyone was named that.
β It can be pronouncedβ¦β is not the same as, βIs often pronouncedβ
I didn't really say either of those, at least in the post. What's your point?
I grew up in Britain no one I knew says sinjin, but Sinclair,warrik (Warwick) etc were the norm