Poor Sian O'callahan

Bathsheba | 15:50 Sun 10th Jan 2016 | ChatterBank

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When will BBC Radio Newsreaders have the decency to pronounce her first name correctly?

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cupid04

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Baths, I have them days too, lol! xx

17:13 Sun 10th Jan 2016

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Zacs-Master

Tursday?

bhg481

Are you qyurying the fact that they pronounce it see ann? The only Sian I knew pronounced her name Shaan. They seem to be very consistent with the pronunciation, so I wonder if they know something we don't.

Bathsheba

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..took me a while Zac, but I got there eventually ;)

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bhg481

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Bathsheba

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Yes bhg, I've only ever known it as Sharn, but possibly she wanted to be known as See-ann.

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stuey

Quite often there is no "correct" way to pronounce a name. The only "rule" to go by is how that person pronounces it.

retrocop

Baths
I have to confess I don't even know who the lady is :-(
I would of said Shorn. I looked up my very Teutonic surname on Google to see how many were listed In Swansea where our family settled 200 yrs ago and found a young lady in the linguistics faculty of the University who wrote her first name Sharn.
Young girl in our pub is called Siobahn which trips a few customers up. :-(

bhg481

We'll be discussing Cholmondesley and Featherstonehaugh next.

stuey

And perhaps that Lea and Perrin stuff.

cupid04

I have the same problem with how to pronounce 'Siobhan.'

mikey4444

I have never heard this name pronounced anyway other than shaan. To pronounce it any other way sounds to me pretentious.

But I did know a man in Bristol whose name was Sean, because his Mum was a great fan of Connery of the same name, and he called himself see-ann.
This was because his mother had seen the name written down but hadn't heard it spoken !

bhg481

The obly person I knew called Siobahn liked it pronounced Shevaun.