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Siôn (Welsh pronunciation:) or Sion is a Welsh form of the Anglo-Norman Jean, [1] pronounced in English similarly to the Irish name Seán. Notable people with the Welsh name include: People with the surname
Words ending in the Latin-derived suffixes -tion and -sion, such as fiction and mission, are examples that exhibit yod coalescence. This sound change was not, however, distributed evenly. Words like module may be realised as either /ˈmɒdjuːl/ or /ˈmɒdʒuːl/.
The spelling -in' is sometimes used to indicate that a speaker uses the G-dropping pronunciation, as in makin' for making. The pronunciation with /n/ rather than /ŋ/ is a long-established one. Old English verbs had a present participle in -ende and a verbal noun form in -ing(e).
Zion is a given name and surname derived from the ancient Canaanite hill fortress in Jerusalem called the City of David. [1] It is less commonly spelled Sion, [2] Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyon, Seyon, or Tsiyyon. [3]
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Welsh language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, [1] [2] is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן ), Seán (anglicized as Shaun/Shawn/Shon) and Séan (Ulster variant; [3] anglicized Shane/Shayne), rendered John in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages.
Traditional Spelling Revised (TSR) is a conservative English-language spelling reform which seeks to apply the underlying rules of English orthography more consistently. [1] It was created by Stephen Linstead and chosen by the International English Spelling Congres (IESC) as the preferred alternative to the defective English orthography in ...
Sion, official organ of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem; Sion, a 1987 novel by Vojislav V. Jovanović; Sion College, a former college, guild of parochial clergy and almshouse in London; Sono Motors Sion, an electric car; FC Sion, a Swiss football team; Sion, an independent heavy metal band founded by Howard Jones and Jared Dines.