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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by drieddust on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:05PM (#24803954)
Funny story when I was in the UK two people born and brought up in the country came to my desk talking about a third person. I honestly thought they were speaking about two different people. While I was totally confused they seems to perfectly at peace pronouncing same name so differently. It was a classic Shawn vs Sean moment[1]. This feels weird personally because in my mother language Hindi this is nearly impossible. Each alphabet have a distinct sound. You just pronounce a word in 2 different manners.

[1] https://youtu.be/69UlVQpYwUE?t=85

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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by kwhitefoot on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:13PM (#24804016)
Sean is not originally English but Irish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean

And it has different pronunciations depending on the region.

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