Media Matters for America: Sean Hannity questions the Pope’s knowledge of the Bible
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): The Pope made a statement. Did you see the Pope's statement? If you want to bring this up, I'll talk -- LYNDA MCLAUGHLIN (PRODUCER): I see everything he says. I hate-watch him. It ...
Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet).
There were references to the origin of the above idiom, my favorite (supported here as well) being from the movie, The Untouchables, wherein Sean Connery utters with contempt, "Isn't that just like a [racist for Italian]... brings a knife to a gun fight."
I've noticed many Scottish and Irish Gaelic words to be spelled with an s, followed by a vowel, and pronounced like sh. Think about the way Sean Connery speaks (not to mention how the Se in his name is pronounced).
Sean, above, wrote, "free is just a placeholder for $0." I disagree, and this is the point. The term 'for' must be used with a commodity. The use of a commodity, such as 'five dollars', can be correctly phrased, "for five dollars". It's an amount. But the term 'free' denotes the ABSENCE of a commodity. 'Free' denotes amountlessness.
Hannity (weeknights, 9 PM/ET). Based in New York, he joined the network in 1996 and achieved the title as the longest-running current primetime host in cable news in television history ...