Just remember folks

[yendi]

No matter how often you hear otherwise from Halloween 2, David Berkowitz, or Criminal Minds, it's not pronounced "Sam Hane."

Also, a very special holiday message from The Kurgan.

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

The Google Ad that came up was for Online Pastor Degrees. I found this funny.

Someone should name a character "Sam Hane." Or would that confuse people even more?

[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it got pronounced like that on Supernatural, too.

The writers of SPN also didn't do their research on the neurotransmitter oxytocin for the episode about the siren. Oxytocin is the one that makes you go all gooshy cuddly caretakey, like a mother with a new baby. Dopamine and norepinephrine are what make you kill your mom for a stripper.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

No matter how often you hear otherwise from Halloween 2, David Berkowitz, or Criminal Minds

Or Thought of the Day - which you probably won't know, but it's a brief meditation-piece in the middle of Today, the three-hour morning news programme on BBC Radio 4 (which is kind of the political-agenda-setting media event of the day). Thought of the Day is usually delivered by a religious figure; on Friday, it was a bishop. Who had just been listening to a pagan speaking about Samhain (and pronouncing it properly), and the bloody bishop still said Sam Hane.

Mind you, I think you're probably wrong, alas. Thing is, it is pronounced Sam Hane now, by 99% of the people who pronounce it. We're a dying breed, the last percentile: doomed by our own voices.

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

I think somebody already did...

http://www.sam-hane.com/agency/noframes.htm

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

You know, this brings up an interesting point of the "correct" pronunciation - I've seen at least 2-4 different "correct" pronunciations from Irish and Scots Gaelic speakers.

[skitty.livejournal.com]

People are always saying that, but no one ever wants to explain how it's supposed to be pronounced.

[creepingcrud.livejournal.com]

In the absence of knowing one or more correct pronunciations, I recommend "Sham-on!", a la Michael Jackson.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's going to fly with televisin actors and writers. I'm going to check out the spooky holiday murders that occur on SHAM-ON - duh duh dunnnnnnnnnnnnnn - yes SHAM-ON is the witch's holiday. Have a safe SHAM-on.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Of course not.

The correct pronunciation is "that silly little hippie holiday that takes place on the same day as Halloween and isn't nearly as fun."

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Several languages, perhaps?

[tnjade.livejournal.com]

My husband and I pronounce it "sah'-wen", or "saw" (like "sawing a log") and "when" (like "when is your appointment?"), with a slight emphasis on the first syllable.

SAH-wen

Your mileage may vary. :)