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.

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      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
      
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      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.