Why is “Lean” pronounced the way it’s spelled, but “Sean” is pronounced “Shawn”?

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I’m over here calling people “Seen” and they’re like nah fam it’s “Shawn” and I’m like well then spell it that way bro, lol.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

http://spellingsociety.org/uploaded_misc/poems-online-misc.pdf

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