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.

    • sgibson5150@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      5 months ago

      From Wikipedia

      St John Pettifor Catchpool (1890–1971), English Quaker relief worker
St. John Ellis (1964–2005), British Rugby League player
St John Ervine (1883-1971), Irish writer
St John Groser (1890-1966), Anglican priest and Christian socialist
St John Hornby (1867–1946), British businessman
St John Horsfall (1910-1949), British motor racing driver
St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (1856–1942), British politician
St John O'Neill (1741–1790), Irish MP for Randalstown
Saint-John Perse, pseudonym of Alexis Leger (1887–1975), French poet and diplomat
St John Philby (1885–1960), British civil servant and explorer in Arabia
    • stormio@lemmy.ca
      5·
      5 months ago

      In Vancouver, Canada, we have a journalist named St. John Alexander who pronounces his first name as “Sinjin.” I heard him say it on TV and it sounded weird. His profile even mentions it.

      He’s often asked about his name. St. John is originally British and is pronounced “Sinjin.” His parents discovered it in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre.