Just a random thought while showering

Sean is an Irish name. Irish used to be spelled with many umlauts, accents, and other annotations that didn’t exist on English typewriters. So the Irish intellectuals got together and overhauled their language so that all their vowel sounds could be written with combinations of 5 vowels, leading to a lot of strange rules like “ea” being pronounced like “ah”. And there are many many more confusing words in Irish.

Sean Bean is a contradiction