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- pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . .
65 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 ?
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
- Comma positioning between title and name and conjunction
Which is the proper way to write this sentence: Rmt, LLC will be managed by Sally Red, CEO and Sean Brown, COO OR Rmt, LLC will be managed by Sally Red CEO, and Sean Brown COO (Comma between
- punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This problem is more obvious with a company say that requires the apostrophe to be used Thus > John used to work for Lloyds of London whereas Jill used to work for > Lloyd's Bank > > ??Were Lloyds' staff more content overall than Lloyd's' staff? The Economist Style Guide advises: Try to avoid using Lloyd's (the insurance market) as a possessive; it poses an insoluble problem
- A classmate and I was vs A classmate and I were
The verb were agrees with the plural subject, "A classmate and I" The singular "student" should be plural "students" in both examples You might say "I was one of the first two x students to be awarded this scholarship" (where x is name of college) to better emphasize your achievement and avoid the non-specific and distracting phrase, "a classmate"
- Is there a specific term for tone of command in English?
I'm wondering if there is a specific word that refers to a quot;tone of command quot; I'm putting it in double quotations because in my native language (Korean) we have a specific word called quot;
- Accustom vs accustomed? Which is proper usage here?
I'm using accustom in a sentence like so: Users are already familiar with YouTube and are accustom to its expansive music catalog I'm wondering if this is an incorrect use of the word accustom S
- Difference between sleeping with Sean Parker and sleeping on Sean . . .
The latter is almost certainly the intended sense here— Amy says she slept with Sean as a euphemism for sex, but to Sean the sex was forgettable; her actually sleeping on top of him is what he remembers from the night before
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