Re: The difficulties of raising your kids to be properly homophobic

Ruth Lawrence wrote:
> "Miche" <micheinnz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:micheinnz-308657.11585107072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article <ldi274lg01si67snttavnadg1bpnqin7iq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Siobhan <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:44:19 -0500, Steve Heller
>>> <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:46:28 -0400, Siobhan <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:44:26 +0100, Chickpea <chickpea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Heh.  I remember, years ago, before the current UK fa****on for
Celtic
>>>>>> and Gaelic names, a colleague of mine phoning someone called
Siobhan
>>>>>> O'Kelly to arrange a job interview.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not only did he not have the faintest idea how to pronounce it,
he'd 
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> realised it was a female name.  Imagine his face when "Mr O'Kelly" 
>>>>>> came
>>>>>> to the phone.
>>>>> I still get that. It's a lot less common in Canada.
>>>>>
>>>>> Siobhan
>>>> Ok, so how is it pronounced?
>>> SHOVE-on
>>>
>>> Siobhan
>> Interesting.  The NZ Irish I know pronounce it ****v-AHN.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Here I have heard it as ****v-ON.

And my cousin of that name (who is English) pronounces it ****v-ON as 
well. It's interesting to see how many pronounciations there are of this 
name.


Teal (pron. teel, rhymes with wheel, in case there was any doubt)