Checkmate, Chuck. 👑

Edit: Given the number of downvotes I’m getting, I’m guessing a lot of people have just learned that they’ve been pronouncing St. John wrong. Don’t beat yourselves up. It’s not like it’s a terribly common name.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    114·
    28 days ago

    You don’t live in Britain where:

    • This is a name people have.
    • It’s pronounced like that.
    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      82·
      28 days ago

      I live near a village called St John’s Town of Dalry and no one says sinjin nor have I heard anyone’s name referred to that way.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
      4·
      28 days ago

      Am in UK, and yeah, I’ve definitely heard it pronounced that way, sometimes combined with a second name, eg St John-Smith = Sinjin-Smith

      I think it’s a thing posh people use sometimes.