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- pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . .
Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet)
- Why do we pronounce Dean as diːn but Sean as ʃɒn ?
18 Sean is an Irish name, and so follows a completely different set of rules Siobhan is another Irish name with a very non-English pronunciation
- Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John?
The main difference between lying and not using a comma in "Thanks, John", in your analogy, is that lying is a deliberate act of deception that often has negative consequences for the person being lied to, whereas dropping that comma is unlikely to have any negative consequences for the reader and is often not done deliberately It's a poor analogy
- What is the proper way to say possesive with person X and self?
Possible Duplicate: My wife and I #39;s seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" be
- and me or me and. . . - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: ldquo;Me and my wife rdquo; or ldquo;my wife and me rdquo; I keep seeing that it's just courtesy to put yourself last in a list of nouns eg "They went to the game with S
- punctuation - Is the correct format Good morning, John or Good . . .
Which of these is in the correct format? Good morning, John Or Good morning John
- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . .
When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children
- You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information
Me Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the person doing that action You can't mix you with myself You can talk to me I can talk to myself
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