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> Siobhan I'm not sure how you could possibly anglicize that, short of adopting an entirely new name. "Sean" would be phonetically close, but Siobhan is exclus
by TillE 13y ago
> Siobhan
I'm not sure how you could possibly anglicize that, short of adopting an entirely new name. "Sean" would be phonetically close, but Siobhan is exclusively feminine.
- raverbashing 13y agoYes, I know it is feminine, but my mental list of Irish name is short
- eplanit 13y agoIrish curse.
- DavidWoof 13y agoSharon
- herge 13y agoHow 'bout Joanne?
- dghf 13y agoAs "Joan", "Joanna" or "Jane", presumably. Slightly off-topic: I can't find a link, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Irish speakers in the nineteenth century would routinely anglicise their own names when writing in English: e.g., a man called Sean would sign letters as "John".
- InclinedPlane 13y agoIt's usually anglicized as Shivon.
- pessimizer 13y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=Chevonne https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Chevonne
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoAnglicise, surely ;0)> "Shavaun" ~10 per million in US census name information. "Shavaughn" seems similarly [un]popular too. Also, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amusing-Misspellings-of-Siobhan/555508251165809 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amusing-Misspellings-of-Siobh....
- theorique 13y agoAnecdotally, I've never met a "Shavaun" (or "Chivonne", etc). All the "Siobhans" I've met seemed proud of their Irish heritage and history. Making it easier and losing the Gaelic "bh" seems a bit more lower-class.
- dllthomas 13y agoIt seems like there'd be a selection bias, and our cultural attitudes toward outsiders have shifted various directions over time - we're currently pretty accepting of the Irish.
- pbhjpbhj 13y ago>"I've never met a "Shavaun" (or "Chivonne", etc)." I wouldn't think I could say the same. My work means I do spell the names of most people I meet, but certainly not all. I consider my spelling to be very good but even so there are names each week that I can't spell [correctly] and/or have never written before. Homophonic alternative spellings appear to be in vogue. As it happens I knew someone for maybe 20 years called Siobhan before I learnt that was how you spelt it; if she was using a alternative spelling I'd never have known.