Sarah or Seerah

[NeoCracker]

I'm on about you pissing off!

Also I'm tired as all smurf, about to eat and go to bed. Let me have my rambling woman!

[Shorty]

This thread is about name pronunciation anyway.

[NeoCracker]

This thread is about name pronunciation anyway.

*snip*

Off topic! And also not accurate. ~S

[Hollycat]

Saaaaaaaaaaaaarah~
Why are you such a trout steerer
I know that life could be fairer
But you're starting to act queerer
Saaaaaaaaaaaaarah~
Let me be a little clearer
Old age is getting nearer
And I think you might need a carer
Saaaaaaaaaaaaarah~

HC: Shayne rhymes with pain.

See, you got it right. But my name has been read as all of the following in just the last year:

Shee-anne
Shy-anne
Sheen
Shine
Shan
Chan (wts?)
San
Shins
Saiyan

And my favorite of last year, during an English Professors first day:
"Sah... Shee..... Sheeya? Screw it, I can't pronounce this. Chick with the y in their name."

[Madame Adequate]

Ahahaha what the actual hell Shayne is not a difficult name to pronounce.

Is it super rare over there or something? There's plenty of people called Shane over here.

[Tigmafuzz]

And yet nobody has pointed out that BoB pronounces Megan "MEE-gan" yet? I mean seriously?

[Loony BoB]

May-gin works, too. Depends on the Megan, much like it depends on the Sara or the Nicola.

[Tigmafuzz]

May-gin works, too. Depends on the Megan, much like it depends on the Sara or the Nicola.

Here in 'MURICA, the first syllable is either may- or mə- and the last syllable is either -gin or -gən, sometimes even a full -gun if you're in Mississippi or Tennessee or some other place with a weird strong dialect. Mee-gin just sounds... wrong. Very wrong.

[Shorty]

May-gin works, too. Depends on the Megan, much like it depends on the Sara or the Nicola.

May-gin? Are you serious? Seriously serious?

[Madame Adequate]

He has GOT to be trolling. Jesus Christ.

[Relena Peacecraft]

This thread would be a million times easier to read if you'd use a standard phonetic alphabet instead of your accent-dependent rhyming words. Then again, specifying vowels accurately is a complete pain, and even IPA symbols aren't always good enough when working across accents. Somehow I doubt anyone wants to specify their pronunciations using formant frequencies.

I could see someone pronouncing Sara differently from Sarah, but I've never known anyone who did so. But it's probably no different than the couple of ways you can pronounce Tara.

I know someone with a name similar to Mary/Marie (but I've forgotten how she spells it) that isn't pronounced the same as either. And not the same as Maury either.

[Hollycat]

Ahahaha what the actual hell Shayne is not a difficult name to pronounce.

Is it super rare over there or something? There's plenty of people called Shane over here.

No, I know a few people named Shane, and no one has any problem pronouncing their names. There are either a bunch of idiots down here or people are doing it on purpose.

[Jiro]

BoB and I say Megan the same and that is the right way because if you want to say it the other way put a smurfing H in the name.

Also ask Fujiko how to say her name and you'll see that Sarah/Sara are not always the same.

[Rebellious Eagle]

What about the different ways you can pronounce "Stephen"? I've heard it both "steff-in" and "steev-in" and it confuses me.

[Tigmafuzz]

What about the different ways you can pronounce "Stephen"? I've heard it both "steff-in" and "steev-in" and it confuses me.

Stephen is pronounced "George"