Shone (US)

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

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