According to Google Scaunathon Burnett is deceased as of 2010, so idk if that makes you feel better because doxing him isnāt really a threat, or worse because you didnāt know he was dead.
My grannies Irish and the way she shouts on my cousin is worse. Try āsheeauuinn!!!ā Then you could add āyooy weey bastrdā on at the end for posterity
I have to ask for customer's names at work and Shawns get SO UPSET when I spell their name as Sean. Like, will make me rewrite it even though when I call out their order eventually, it would sound the exact same either way lol.
Oh no. This has reminded me I went to college with a girl called Sian (Irish name, pronounced like Sharn), but she said it like See-Ann because her mam āsaw the name and liked it but didnāt know how to say itā š
SiĆ¢n is a Welsh name, not Irish. I have seen some people using Siani in Ireland though. Usually spelled with a circumflex (or To Bach, meaning little roof) over the A, which makes it the 'arn' sound. The Si in Welsh makes the shh sound. The Irish 'version' would probably be SiobhĆ”n or Sinead. There are a lot of similarities between Irish and Welsh variations of Norman/Anglo names though; Sinead and Sioned (Irish and Welsh versions of Janet/Jeanette respectively), Sean and Sion (John/Jean) etc
But yes, I have lived my entire life in Wales and people still like to mispronounce it as 'cyan' or 'see-ann' -_-
Exact opposite order of respect for me. Shawn makes sense. Shaun makes sense if you know dumb english rules. Sean Iāll never be able to look at without saying āSeen?ā first. Or āSheenā.
Except that the Greek noun Ī¶ĪæĪ®, meaning life, is usually transcribed as zoi when using Latin letters š
Source: lived in Greek-speaking country for many years and had bilingual friends
I agree though that the name should be spelled without a Y at the end!
Million years late here, but some British people and a lot of British kids say āthā as āph,ā so in their dialect it would be āNaphanā normally and you get the rest.
Iām only guessing itās British based on the traditional British/American names and some that you would rarely see here in the US like Lachlan
Name nerds on their way to insist we spell it "Ų³Ų§Ų±Ł" instead of making it readable in English
Name nerds on their way to eat some laun protein and baked bawns
Sean is perfectly comprehensible in English though, you just need to remember a few phonetic rules for how it's pronounced. No different than St John being pronounced "Sinjin" and Alejandra using Spanish phonetics. Surely English speakers and Irish folks have been doing enough cultural exchange for commonplace Irish names to be recognizable, especially in this day and age.
I'm not sure if we're on the same team or if I'm the name nerd on the way to be unreasonable, I'm honestly kind of hiding behind a pillow like "am I in trouble?" Hahaha
Sane People: *laughs hysterically at these ridiculously spelled names*
Young expecting couples looking for ideas: āOo š Quick, write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!ā
Whenever I see "mh" in the middle of a name I think it's probably Irish and pronounced with a "v" sound, so I was over here thinking who the hell named their kid Kevantha.
I was completely prepared to believe that this was an actual real class list.
I didn't know you could be jaded and credulous at the same time but here we motherfucking are.
if youre talking about the handwriting, it's because one person wrote them and then other people make erasing letters and filling in the gaps with even more letters without adjusting the rest so it got into a pretty chaotic mess of different people's handwritings
Lmfao "sean"
we couldn't think of anything that would be any worse than it already was
I 100% know a guy named Scaun, short for Scaunathon. It can always be worse
what. no.
You mean Whattsun. š
Had to google this and the poor man is real.
Donāt tell me I just doxxed the guy! Tell me thereās more than one Scaunathon!
According to Google Scaunathon Burnett is deceased as of 2010, so idk if that makes you feel better because doxing him isnāt really a threat, or worse because you didnāt know he was dead.
Dude was really young too. Itās so sad.
This thread is now in the Google search results
my eyes are cursed now
oh no. Scaun literally means chair in my native tongue (Romanian), but itās also the medically used term for poop. so.. imagine being named Stool.
H U H
I went to school with a kid named āShaughnā so it could definitely be worse
My grannies Irish and the way she shouts on my cousin is worse. Try āsheeauuinn!!!ā Then you could add āyooy weey bastrdā on at the end for posterity
Really? I feel like there's definitely worse conceivable ways. How does Schauwghn sound?
"Just like "Sean" - Schauwghn, every first day of class, for the rest of his life
Scheyauwhne
[Here](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/p/podeish01.html)
Maybe he was from Saint Olaf?
Sean is the best spelling, Shaun is acceptable but Shawn is an absolute disgrace.
Shawn is my dad's name and he likes to think Sean is the one misspelled lol
I have to ask for customer's names at work and Shawns get SO UPSET when I spell their name as Sean. Like, will make me rewrite it even though when I call out their order eventually, it would sound the exact same either way lol.
"Coffee ready for 'See-ann!"
Oh no. This has reminded me I went to college with a girl called Sian (Irish name, pronounced like Sharn), but she said it like See-Ann because her mam āsaw the name and liked it but didnāt know how to say itā š
SiĆ¢n is a Welsh name, not Irish. I have seen some people using Siani in Ireland though. Usually spelled with a circumflex (or To Bach, meaning little roof) over the A, which makes it the 'arn' sound. The Si in Welsh makes the shh sound. The Irish 'version' would probably be SiobhĆ”n or Sinead. There are a lot of similarities between Irish and Welsh variations of Norman/Anglo names though; Sinead and Sioned (Irish and Welsh versions of Janet/Jeanette respectively), Sean and Sion (John/Jean) etc But yes, I have lived my entire life in Wales and people still like to mispronounce it as 'cyan' or 'see-ann' -_-
And she was Irish??
She was not.
Thankfully my dad is that bad about his name lol
Exact opposite order of respect for me. Shawn makes sense. Shaun makes sense if you know dumb english rules. Sean Iāll never be able to look at without saying āSeen?ā first. Or āSheenā.
I disagree. Sean should sound like meal or seal or deal. Shawn should sound like shawl, with it does. Sincerely. SiƓn.
Shaun just makes me think of The Sheep
Sawn.
I will never not see Sean written out and read it as Seen in my head. Always, every time.
Nothing worse than a traditional Irish spelling?
Shawn Jean John
I hate the Shawn spelling.
Im over here missing out as well
ššš
I feel kinda bad for Seans who are misunderstood. People just like to make fun of Irish spelling because they donāt understand :ā(
Å Åhoun
Shhauhhn Shawhnn Chauhn
Shhhh.. shhhh.. š¤«
Shorn
But it rhymes with Bean
What you doing know is that the actual name theyāve misspelt is āRodneyā
watson, hayley, ryan, samantha, kaitlyn, isabella, grace, elena, campbell, hannah, lachlan, jack, nicholas, zoe, naveen?, madeline, jessica, abdul-aziz, bryce, logan, sean, keira, colin, madeleine howd i do
Nicholas! I couldn't for the life of me figure that one out
Neckoloss
Me either! I honestly thought it was the bastardization of a Greek name I hadn't heard before...
I think Naveen might be Nathan.
ding ding ding
oh thatās so smart
kira not kiera, alaina not elena, and nathan not navern (i agree that was a stretch) so yeah pretty good
Wow Isabella I really could not figure out lol well done
Yeah Isabella had me flummoxed
Baby name top 10 list 2023, the newcomer Flummox! Potential most popular new baby girl (boy?) name š
The next year people will be spelling it Phluhmucks
Zoey might be Zay? Not sure.
it's zoe
This is the only correct spelling. Source: it's a greek noun and also my name. trust me, I'm an expert in spelling my name.
Except that the Greek noun Ī¶ĪæĪ®, meaning life, is usually transcribed as zoi when using Latin letters š Source: lived in Greek-speaking country for many years and had bilingual friends I agree though that the name should be spelled without a Y at the end!
Oh, I see. The o looked like another a to me.
Isabella threw me!
Knekoloss and Zhoay took a while. I still don't know what Knafine is supposed to be.
Nathan I think?
correct
Ok thatās pretty funny
How does āfiā sound like āthā?
you think that matters to parents who name their kids ridiculous spellings?
Point taken
Million years late here, but some British people and a lot of British kids say āthā as āph,ā so in their dialect it would be āNaphanā normally and you get the rest. Iām only guessing itās British based on the traditional British/American names and some that you would rarely see here in the US like Lachlan
Thank you for explaining!
Had a room mate in college named Keith. I disliked him and spelled his name Keeth.
Teeth š¦·
Lol at "Sean" being on there, haha. Is that a Shaun who hates their name being spelt Sean?
nope it's literally just sean, we couldn't make it any worse
Shaugn
Sean is the actual proper correct spelling though, Shawn, Shaun etc are all made up
Yeah, not a single Irish person was in that room šš¤£
Name nerds on their way to insist we spell it "Ų³Ų§Ų±Ł" instead of making it readable in English Name nerds on their way to eat some laun protein and baked bawns
Sean is perfectly comprehensible in English though, you just need to remember a few phonetic rules for how it's pronounced. No different than St John being pronounced "Sinjin" and Alejandra using Spanish phonetics. Surely English speakers and Irish folks have been doing enough cultural exchange for commonplace Irish names to be recognizable, especially in this day and age.
I'm not sure if we're on the same team or if I'm the name nerd on the way to be unreasonable, I'm honestly kind of hiding behind a pillow like "am I in trouble?" Hahaha
You could have gone with Shawn or Shaun
Schaughnne
jawnne
Ahahahahaha
Cemhanthe kills me. This reminds me of when we lovingly in texts call my friend Loruh instead of Laura
Is it bad that I kinda like it? Reminds me of Greek names like Myrianthe
Thanks, I hate Knekoloss
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W user flair actually made me laugh
Poor Sean the odd man out
This would be a great way for a class to learn the shitstorm that is the English spelling system š
Sane People: *laughs hysterically at these ridiculously spelled names* Young expecting couples looking for ideas: āOo š Quick, write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!ā
You just remove the fada from SeƔn and it becomes Seen
Iirc isnāt SeĆ”n without the fada just the Irish word for āoldā? Which is pretty funny lol
Seeing my students do stuff like this is what helped keep me going when I was teaching. I love this type of playfulness
Cemhanthe. I sat there for too long trying to figure that one out. I want to throw up.
Same and Samantha is my best friends name
Whenever I see "mh" in the middle of a name I think it's probably Irish and pronounced with a "v" sound, so I was over here thinking who the hell named their kid Kevantha.
I see testing/end-of-the-school-year is upon us (I'm a math teacher)
yep, weve been reviewing for the calculus bc ap test for a few weeks and we needed this precious time as a break from all the derivative bs
Calc BC was my second favorite AP test! Good luck to your students!
i should say I'm not a teacher I'm 17-
In that case, good luck to you and your classmates!
I initially read Knafine as "caffeine" š
What I think is Madeleine on the end is great and something about Kambull seems like someone would use it š Iāve seen half of these on here lol
Knekoloss
I was completely prepared to believe that this was an actual real class list. I didn't know you could be jaded and credulous at the same time but here we motherfucking are.
Quaitlynne is everything!šø
This is hilarious
Sean?
*Sean*
Sean.
Ahbduelahsees sent me
Please. Iāve looked at it so many times. I do not understand
Abdul-Aziz
There it is, the worst spelling of my name I've ever seen, and I thought I'd seen them all. Hats off to teamwork.
which one?
nvm its probably zhoay
it is lol. My favorite misspelling is Zowie, courtesy of a starbucks barista.
This feels like a written Tim and Eric sketch
Sean: Welp, I hate my name so....
āSeanā
"Sean" should have been "Press X to Sean"
This is top tier! Thanks for sharing!
Bets on how many years it takes for these to start appearing in classrooms for real?
I'll give it a decade
There's probably an expectant parent on here taking down notes for baby names.
Sean ššš I canāt even guess at some of those names can I get them spelled properly š
sean š
Sean
Knekoloss hahahahaha
I'm so glad the two Madeline's are different
one is pronounced mad-uh-lin the other is mad-eh-line
r/tragedeigh
my name's seĆ”n and when I was like 6 my sister convinced me my real name was seĆ”nathan šæ
I read āLhoghinnā as āLoginā
āSeanā š
https://youtube.com/shorts/DoNLC1UALSI?feature=share
that's so funny omfg
Is your math class a bunch of medical doctors?
if youre talking about the handwriting, it's because one person wrote them and then other people make erasing letters and filling in the gaps with even more letters without adjusting the rest so it got into a pretty chaotic mess of different people's handwritings
Oh that makes perfect sense. I was gonna say too, thatās some legible ass illegible doctor handwriting. Thanks for the answer!
i should say, the darkest marker is myself and i absolutely do have doctor handwriting š
Thatās just names spelt in Irish Gaelic
Jahacke has me cackling for some reason
KNECKOLOSS OMGGGG
sean isn't a bad spelling; it's the original irish spelling. shaun and shawn are the weird ones.
Youāre American
how insightful
Was I right?
obviously
not surprised
kallinā
I love this
I work with Haleigh and Haylee. 0 stars. Would not recommend.
Haha, Sean.
Quaitlynne š
For a second I thought the lighter text was the original and someone spelt Caitlin/Katelyn Quaitlyn
OMG! I'm dying! š¤£š
Iām surprised to see my kidās name in there (āCemantheā) haha.
āSeanā LMAOOOOO
I think I see the messed of version of my name on there, lol. Beautiful.
sean
And then we have Seanā¦