Checkmate, Chuck. 👑
Edit: Given the number of downvotes I’m getting, I’m guessing a lot of people have just learned that they’ve been pronouncing St. John wrong. Don’t beat yourselves up. It’s not like it’s a terribly common name.
Checkmate, Chuck. 👑
Edit: Given the number of downvotes I’m getting, I’m guessing a lot of people have just learned that they’ve been pronouncing St. John wrong. Don’t beat yourselves up. It’s not like it’s a terribly common name.
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?
Local names in Britain do my head in
Roger Moore pronounced his alias St John Smythe as “Sinjun Smythe” in “A View To A Kill”
The definitive answer :-)
Oh no not in Utica
Perhaps not precisely “sinjin”. Wikipedia gives the IPA as /ˈsɪndʒɪn/ or /-ʒən/ where the ʒ 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
It’s an upper crust thing. A bit old-fashioned as well.