How do you blokes across the Pond pronounce Connery's first name?

I come from the same part of the world you do and I pronounce it Shaun, not Shahn

I don't pronounce it Shahn but I also don't pronounce it with a very hard Shhhaun (the way Roger does) so I'm somewhere in between.

I'm also somewhere in between Daniel Crayg and Cregg.

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

Try this: http://forvo.com/word/sean_connery/#en

Only one of them is Scottish, but they all sound like Shaun to me. Now the pronounciation of Séan in Irish does sound more like Shahn sometimes, but Connery, as we all know, is as Scottish as they come.

And I'm sure Sean would have corrected Rog if his pronunciation were wrong.
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I'm Scottish. Its a not uncommon name. Its pronounced with a distinct, though not emphasized SH, then rhymes with con or lawn od don.

So it's Sean as con or Don.

Not Sean as Shawn or lawn or dawn (I'm going American with pronunciations here).

Different from Shone or phone or tone.

Where there's still any doubt one can't go wrong with "Sir".

What no man Can give ya. And none Can take away.

We pronounce con, don, lawn and dawn so that they all pretty much rhyme, but I get that in the US there is a slight difference, so its more like the simpler con or Don sound, although possibly slightly somewhere in between. I'm from the West of Scotland and even in that 50 miles there is a difference. I'd guess we may lean more strongly to the "con" sound; it pretty much rhymes with the first part of Connery, but, especially elsewhere in Scotland, there would be a hint of the "lawn" sound, but probably not to the extent that I think Americans differentiate "lawn". Hope that makes sense.

Actually, I think Daniel Craig's surname is much more of an issue. For some reason, Americans seem to pronounce it entirely differently - Craig as more "Cregg"; very noticeable with Craig Ferguson. He would pronounce it "Crayg", with the ai rhyming completely with day or say.

Being a non-native English speaker, I would normally expect Craig's last name to be pronounced "crayg", and the Craigs I came across in the U.S., IIRC, were also pronounced that way.

However, I know someone from New Zealand with Craig as his first name, and he and his kin definitely pronounce it "cregg".

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Americans tend to go with SHAHN (plus a soft "sh" sound).

I think that's a regional thing rather than all over. I'm from the South and I pronounce it Shawn, although it's still a more open vowel sound than it would be pronounced across the Pond. I guess it's really a spectrum rather than an either-or thing.