About 130,000 results
Open links in new tab
  1. pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English …

    Dec 27, 2014 · Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and …

  2. Why do we pronounce Dean as /diːn/ but Sean as /ʃɒn/?

    18 Sean is an Irish name, and so follows a completely different set of rules. Siobhan is another Irish name with a very non-English pronunciation.

  3. Is it acceptable to drop the comma in "Thanks, John"?

    The main difference between lying and not using a comma in "Thanks, John", in your analogy, is that lying is a deliberate act of deception that often has negative consequences for the person …

  4. What is the proper way to say possesive with "person X" and self?

    Possible Duplicate: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" …

  5. punctuation - Is the correct format "Good morning, John" or …

    Apr 22, 2016 · Which of these is in the correct format? Good morning, John. Or Good morning John.

  6. and me" or "me and..." - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Possible Duplicate: “Me and my wife” or “my wife and me” I keep seeing that it's just courtesy to put yourself last in a list of nouns. eg. "They went to the game …

  7. Difference between "sleeping with Sean Parker" and "sleeping on …

    1 Sleep on is a play of words here. You didn't know Sean Parker when you saw him -- you must have been sleeping all this while (you were unaware of developments related to Sean Parker).

  8. You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information

    Me. Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other. It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the …

  9. What does "life's a beach" mean? - English Language & Usage …

    Somewhere on Yahoo News I read this text: Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn turned heads when they showed up together at Reese Witherspoon's wedding. The 26-year-old actress took …

  10. When should "Mom" and "Dad" be capitalized? - English …

    When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized. When you're talking about dads in …