You can't have your cake and eat it.

[ComedyPilot]

Just watched a good thriller - Flightplan - starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Sean Bean.

Foster plays a recently widow(er)ed woman whose daughter goes missing on a flight from Europe to the US, the same flight where she is repatriating her husband's body. As she gets increasingly frustrated at the crews unwillingness to help her she bangs on the cockpit door to get the captain's attention. As she does this she is detained by an air marshall (Sarsgaard). During the incident the captain (Bean) comes out to see her.

And this is my beef. His name is Sean Bean.

Now if you pronounce his forname Sean (SHORN), then surely his surname is pronounced Bean (BORN). Or, flipping it over, you pronounce his forname the same way as his surname, so Sean Bean becomes SEEN BEEN?

Or you pronounce it SEEN BAWN....?

Where did I leave my pills..............?


...................................Wibble

 

[ianrauk]

eer yes indeed mate

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

HELP

 

[02GF74]

look on the bright side, at least the femal co-pilot was not called Siobhan.

 

[snorri]

Now if you pronounce his forname Sean (SHORN),

Why would you put an R in Sean?

 

[WhiteWolf]

I agree with the man from East Yorkshire

 

[ComedyPilot]

Don't get me started on See-oh-Ber-Harn....if it's pronounced Sher-vorn, then why isn't it spelt something like Shervorn, or Shavawn

 

[ASC1951]

Don't get me started on See-oh-Ber-Harn....if it's pronounced Sher-vorn, then why isn't it spelt something like Shervorn, or Shavawn

Because it's in a language (Irish Gaelic) in which many letters aren't pronounced the same as in English. As is Sean, in fact.

The Anglicised spellings are an approximation of the original local pronunciation - that is why, for instance, we have now gone from Peking (nothing like) to Beijing (closer). Still in Gaelic, you will find that in the Scottish Highlands the OS used Ben/Beinn for mountain much more in the south and Bhein more in the north west and the Hebrides; and if you listen to a Skye native, i.e. someone who isn't from Croydon, you will find that the 'h' is slightly pronounced and the word is different.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Mrs 3BM thinks Sean Bean is a bit of a hunk, she's always disappointed with his films as he tends to get killed in the first few minutes.

 

[400bhp]

It's a crap film.

He can pronounce his name how he likes. Shirley hasBeen for all I care.

 

[Drago]

Sean Bean looks like he's been hitting the pies big time lately.

 

[Maz]

And this is my beef. His name is Sean Bean.

Don't let the missus find out.

 

[02GF74]

Because it's in a language (Irish Gaelic) in which many letters aren't pronounced the same as in English. As is Sean, in fact.

The Anglicised spellings are an approximation of the original local pronunciation - .

that can't be so as it would be anglicised to "shivorn"

 

[penguinking9]

that can't be so as it would be anglicised to "shivorn"

You're assuming the original local pronunciation was the same as it is now.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I read the title and thought it was going to be aimed at coffejo, Arch and lisa21