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Siôn (Welsh pronunciation:) or Sion is a Welsh form of the Anglo-Norman Jean, [1] pronounced in English similarly to the Irish name Seán. Notable people with the Welsh name include: People with the surname
Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, [1] [2] is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן ), Seán (anglicized as Shaun/Shawn/Shon) and Séan (Ulster variant; [3] anglicized Shane/Shayne), rendered John in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Irises of a burnt sienna color or with a burnt sienna-colored center.. Sienna or Siena is a feminine given name of Italian origin and unclear meaning. [1] The original usage of the name is derived from the Italian city [2] and may also refer to the burnt orange color of its clay rooftops.
Sien may refer to: Sien of Diauehi, king of an ancient people of north-east Anatolia; Sien, Germany, an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Sien Hoornik, mistress of Vincent van Gogh and model for his famous drawing Sorrow
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)
Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.
Shane is mainly a masculine given name.It is an anglicized version of the Irish name Séaghan/Séan, which itself is cognate to the name John. [1] Shane comes from the way the name Seán is pronounced in the Ulster dialect of the Irish language, as opposed to Shaun or Shawn.