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We don't as far as I know. St John is usually pronounced Saint John. Though English is weird and you might have come across a local pronunciation. Do you know where abouts in the UK that one comes from?
Roger Moore pronounced his alias St John Smythe as "Sinjun Smythe" in "A View To A Kill"
The definitive answer :-)
Perhaps not precisely "sinjin". Wikipedia gives the IPA as /ΛsΙͺndΚΙͺn/ or /-ΚΙn/ where the Κ is the g in beige or the s in pleasure so it's a bit more of a zh sound than a j sound: "sinzhin"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_(name) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
Local names in Britain do my head in
Oh no not in Utica
It's an upper crust thing. A bit old-fashioned as well.