Ok I need your opinion to help a friend!

[briteflame3.livejournal.com]

I was talking to my girlfriend today who is expecting a little boy in May. Her husband and her are having a debate on the spelling of a name. She wants to name him Seamus but her husband is afraid that people will mispronounce it so he wants to spell it Shamus. Well to her she sees SHAMUs. What do you personally thing about the spellings? Would you know how to pronounce Seamus?

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[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I didn't know how to pronounce Seamus until this year when I finally read the Harry Potter series. Well, okay, I lie, I heard it in the Harry movies. A combination of the two, actually. I don't think I equated hearing "shay-miss" to Seamus until I read them.

ANYWAY! I think people will have trouble with it. I don't see SHAMU in Shamus though, but I think it's a weird spelling anyway. I don't know. I mean, I think that a lot of Irish names have to be reworked in America (the issue came up recently here before) because of the vast difference in letter pronunciation and the vast idiocy of people, but to me this seems like one that shouldn't be reworked too much.