>>I mentioned this one a wee way back in another thread. The name "Cholmondeley-St John" is pronounced "Chumley-Sinjun". Anyway, you guys should talk! Your nationality, I hear, is "Kineedian", you eat hens' "agues" (as in plagues), and go "owoot" in the snow! :-)
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>Close, but no cigar. We say Kinayjun. Sort of like 'jeet?' = "did you eat?". At least you've answered a question for me. In a movie called Sleuth, Laurence Olivier refers to the protagonist in his books as 'Sinjun Lord Merridew'. I now know it must have been St. John Lord Merridew, which still sounds odd to me.
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Well that's not what the stewardess said on the Canadian plane I was on, when I asked her if she was American. Perhaps she's had elocution lessons ;-) it might have been "...jun" but definitely "...need...". Besides, I've visited Canada 4 times, staying on a farm once for a month, and I've heard and studied the speech.

Incidentally, on the "jun" subject, it's my understanding that the Cajun part of USA was originally inhabited by the French from the "Arcadian" area of C. who were kicked out by the British after the wars, hence "'cadian" - "cajun"

BTW, I think there is a "Sinjun" name too.