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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    Not a single person in my insane number of years has ever said sinjin

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        1 month ago

        Lived there for years and years. Never heard it pronounced that way. Strange

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        1 month ago

        I live near a village called St John’s Town of Dalry and no one says sinjin nor have I heard anyone’s name referred to that way.

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        Am in UK, and yeah, I’ve definitely heard it pronounced that way, sometimes combined with a second name, eg St John-Smith = Sinjin-Smith

        I think it’s a thing posh people use sometimes.