Does shone rhyme with dawn or zone?

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DD has been told she's saying it wrong - may be both as used in different places?

When you count , one two three, does it sound like wun two three ?😂😂

Yes, of course

OMG. It is absolutely nuts on these kinds of threads when people indignantly insist that certain pronunciations are 'just plain wrong' when they are simply regional.

OP - did I gather that you're Scottish but living in the US? In which case teachers shouldn't be trying to eradicate your child's accent by telling them it's 'wrong'. 'Shone' is definitely pronounced 'shown' in some American accents, but that doesn't mean it should be by everyone!

Fwiw I live in NW England now, but lived almost all my life in the SE (London, Home Counties). For me, shone rhymes with gone. One us pronounced 'wun'.

But seriously- what is with all you people saying regional accents are 'wrong'?! Or that you've never heard people pronounce things that way? Have you never stepped outside your region or switched on the tv or the radio?!

Won and one rhyme otherwise this would not work:

1 1 was a racehorse
2 2 was 1 2
2 2 1 1 race and
1 1 1 1 2

This is a similar reason to why I know forehead rhymes with horrid.

One, gone, non, bon, shone.

Shone rhymes with on (shon ) when used as the past tense of shine .

However, where we live it’s also a surname and in that case it’s pronounced with the long o sound (like shown).

Won also rhymes with gone Why would it be said like wun?

Do people really say BBC wun?

Shone. Gone. One. Scone
Done shun fun won
Shawn born dawn quorn
Cone moan phone

In my accent (uk - south - old RP) shone rhymes with the way I say
Wan
Gone (approx)
Bon (bon bon bon appétit wtc)
Non
Etc

So neither of your options.

Won is wun where I'm from.

With gone, but I have noticed that in American podcasts they pronounce shone to with zone.

One is wun for me too. I think I have a tiny shade of won in it.
I’ve been saying it out loud with my coffee and now feel I have had a successful full rewarding day.

Fascinating. I'm not a native speaker but have lived in a variety of Anglophone countries for over 20 years. I always thought it rhymed with zone. Not sure why though.

OMG. It is absolutely nuts on these kinds of threads when people indignantly insist that certain pronunciations are 'just plain wrong' when they are simply regional.

You don't need to take it so seriously :o We do know that. It's just hyperbole for comedic effect (but it does genuinely feel like "how in the hell could you pronounce it like that??!!)

I do find it funny though how we all clearly hear a multitude of pronunciations every day and mentally transliterate it to the one that we personally use.

If you have a toddler in the house it's even funnier if you stop and think about it. You get so used to their letter/sound substitutions that their speech is completely normal to you even though someone outside the family finds it incomprehensible.

Once more for those at the back:

Different accents pronounce things differently. This is okay. It is normal. It is allowed. It has been the case for our entire history. There's no need to get personally affronted or baffled by it. As a Scot married to an Englishman, we have lots of differences in how we pronounce things. Neither is right or wrong.

And yes I'm Scottish and where I'm from one would never rhyme with gone, it would sound extremely odd in my accent to say it like that, like I was putting on a comedy voice. That doesn't mean it's wrong; it's just not how it's pronounced where I am. No need for faces. Try listening to people from other places and walks of life; it's illuminating

@Thethingswedoforlove

Neither/ it rhymes with gone

Agreed.

Shone/gone
Dawn/brawn
Zone/tone

All different.

Do people really say BBC wun?

Of course. Standard RP and SE English pronunciation. And US. Almost everyone I met or knew before I moved north said 'wun'. And presumably the BBC itself always called it BBC Wun until it started employing more presenters with regional accents!

Just put it into one of those pronunciation web sites maybe?

Dual national US here and Scottish upbringing. We used to make fun of my mum because she didn't think shone was even a word. Never heard an American pronounce it in any way. They tend to say 'shined'.

Neither.

I suspect a lot of people are just tired of these threads where there's so much ignorance and 'comedy' outrage about entirely normal things about our own country.

Neither

For me, ONE is pronounced the same as in wander. (WONN)
WON is the same as wonder. (WUNN).

My far was from a very well to do background, pronounced room as rum, railway as ralw'y, forehead as forred, used the terms 'wireless' in the 21st century, etc. He said one to rhyme with gone.

Scone rhymes with shone

@mathanxiety

Shone rhymes with gone and scone

Now you've done it.

Scone is pronounced scon, to rhyme with shone and gone, yes.

Many very wrong people pronounce it to rhyme with zone. More to be pitied than criticised, I feel.

My far would be my father, naturally.