Randy9Ball said:My understanding is it's prounounced like "sean".
On a surf trip I ran into a couple of German girls back packing through the united states, I tried to call one beautiful, and said it like that. They didn't understand. I showed them in their translation book what I was trying to say, and they started to laugh. Ill never forget they pronounced it like shoe (like the kind on your feet) with an N on the end of it. And the O is long, so like shooen (first part like shoo fly).