shaun of the dead - shaun or shawn??

[joko]

I know it is spelt shaun for the movie, but I think it should have been spelt shawn, because, as shaun is a phonetically pleasing substitute for 'dawn', - shawn would have been a subconscious visual mimic of the word 'dawn', with the distinctive 'W'.

does anyone else see what i mean, or is it just the designer in me being too pernickity about the way i would have done it?

by the way - I am not arsed about this, merely curious, so no 'get a lifes' and 'don't worry about it', and 'doesn't matters' etc please

thanks

[tonymclark]

Shawn of the Dead sounds a bit like a load of Barbers scalping dead people :)

[joko]

that would be 'shorn'...shorley....;oD

[B00]

stop calling me Shirley!!

[purpose]

I'd just find it irritating that they had spelt it incorrectly!

(Is 'Shawn' ever used for a name?)

[joko]

it is indeed a name, purpose.

[purpose]

Good lord, is it really?

I've known a Sean and a Shaun but never a Shawn!

[mrs zom]

i knew a guy once who spelt his name Shaughan...but he was strange so we'll let him off!

[joko]

I have, today, seen two programmes on tv that have people called shawn in them - one was a girl on the american version of the apprentice and one guy on the american beauty and the geek

how strange after just having this discussion...

[aviator]

Don't forget the wrestler Shawn Michaels! That spelling is the american version of sean/shaun.

[robbo82]

It would have been even better had the lead character been Lucy Davis' character from The Office, then they could have just called it Dawn of the Dead!