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I went to school with a girl names Siobhan. Since we'd all gone to school together since elementary, we had no trouble with pronunciation as we'd all heard her name long before we'd read it. We did go through a phase in middle school where we took to calling her see-o-ban, but we were just trying to be clever and she just rolled her eyes at us, it was short lived and just in good fun. I can't speak to how it has fared for her into adulthood, but we live in an area wherein a good portion of the english speaking population are of Irish descent, so it wouldn't be completely unheard of around here you do run in folks named Naoise, Caoimhe, etc., so if she has stayed in the same part of the country I am sure she'd be fine.

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Listen to Mustn'ts, child, listen to the Don'ts.
Listen to the Shouldn'ts, the Impossibles, the Won'ts.
Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me.
Anything can happen, child, Anything can be.

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-Shel Silverstein