Why is the name St. John also pronounced "sin-jin" ?

Question

I notice the British do that a lot. ex: the movie 4 weddings and a funeral - a couple was getting married and they pronouncd the last name sinjin.

Answer 1

It's when people say it fast. In the movie A View to a Kill, Roger Moore took that as an alias and I didn't know what it was he had said. I thought it was "sinjin" too, and also in Star Trek V, one of the three ambassadors of the three major powers at the time(the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans) on Nimbus III was a human named St.John Talbot.

Answer 2

when people say it fast

Answer 3

They are old affectations of surname or proper name pronunciation.

Magdalen College at Oxford is 'maudlin'. Cholmondeley is 'chumley';

Menzies is 'minggis'. St. John is 'sinjin'. Dalziel is 'dee-ell'.

Don't worry about them; they're just some quirks of what's left of British aristocracy.