O'Shognessy?

[flipnflap]

Sounded like Ant & Dec were pronouncing o'Shaughnessy as OShognessy - is that the correct pronunciation?

[imhotep]

Hmm, tbh.... I would have pronounced Shaughnessy as Sean-essy myself

[MarkRae]

It's the Geordie pronunciation.

[boxtops]

O'shone-essy

[jno]

presumably it's up to the owner

yours truly, Saoirse Featherstonehaugh-Cholmondely

[boxtops]

I never knew that we are related, jno :-)

[mike11111]

Obviously derives from Sean, the Irish/Gaelic equivalent of John.

[Robinia]

They must have been told how to pronounce it.
Here he is saying his own name at the beginning of this video...(actually sounds like O'shocknessy to me tho')

[Messalina]

It's O' Shocknessy according to my Irish friends.

[Francis Asis]

According to Ant and Dac's Twitter they are pronouncing it the way he asked them to.

[Francis Asis]

That's Dac pronounced DEC btw. ;)

[MarkRae]

> Obviously derives from Sean, the Irish/Gaelic equivalent of John.

It (almost) certainly doesn't...