Nigel Greenwood
2007-06-19 08:42:06 UTC
As a native speaker of UK English, I was amazed to read in a German
phonetics blog that a (the?) common US pronunciation of the word
"shone" is /SoUn/, to rhyme with "bone". Is this a regional
pronunciation, & if so where is it most common? See:
http://phonetik.blogger.de/
(in German).
Now, why exactly -- I then wondered -- am I so amazed? Well, partly
because the word is relatively rare ("was shining" is commoner), so I
may never have heard it spoken in an American film; & then it doesn't
appear in the mental list most English-speakers have of common UK/US
differences (leisure, lever, etc). So we probably simply assume that
any word not in that list is pronounced the same on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Nigel
--
ScriptMaster language resources (Chinese/Modern & Classical Greek/IPA/
Persian/Russian/Turkish):
http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk
phonetics blog that a (the?) common US pronunciation of the word
"shone" is /SoUn/, to rhyme with "bone". Is this a regional
pronunciation, & if so where is it most common? See:
http://phonetik.blogger.de/
(in German).
Now, why exactly -- I then wondered -- am I so amazed? Well, partly
because the word is relatively rare ("was shining" is commoner), so I
may never have heard it spoken in an American film; & then it doesn't
appear in the mental list most English-speakers have of common UK/US
differences (leisure, lever, etc). So we probably simply assume that
any word not in that list is pronounced the same on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Nigel
--
ScriptMaster language resources (Chinese/Modern & Classical Greek/IPA/
Persian/Russian/Turkish):
http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk