That’s the point I was making. Listen to the newscastershere, (Teen Shot in Back) and tell me if they don’t seem fairly neutral in pronunciation. That really is how people speak in Central Kansas, not just a “professional accent”.
Another Tyke checking in: I say it with the short o as in con, John etc. But as you are from the south, who knows how you pronounce those words anyway? Around here, even “and” is a two-syllable word.
Which part of godzone country is your husband from to pronounce it like Sean?
What about the British pronunciation of “scone”? I heard it might be something like “scun” ??
I won’t post my pronunciation of the other words in the thread as I’m from the US and don’t have a dawg or even a dahg in this fight.
I say it to rhyme with “shone” 
In the interest of accuracy I thought to double check where people were from. This anchor is from Central Kansas. Listen to how she says “shown” in this report. Also, if you listened to the “Teen Shot in Back” report, note how the officer says dog.
Around here, shone rhymes with bone and cone.
A tyke, in these parts, is a small child, maybe age 2-5.
Well, there are three popular British pronunciations of “scone”, and none of them are like “scun”.
The Scottish pronunciation (used for the place, and the stone of the same name) rhymes with “soon”.
One English pronunciation rhymes with “phone” (long “o”).
The other (which I favour) rhymes with “gone” (short “o”).
Quite frankly, I wouldn’t worry about it. From the evidence of this thread, Americans don’t use English short “o” sound at all, so you’re unlikely to ever be able to pronounce the word the way we do (to my ears, the “neutrally accented” reporters in Zabali_Clawbane’s link are talking about a teen who was “shaht uhn th’ behck”).
Besides which, since there are two common (English) pronunciations, whichever one you choose you’ll find an Englishman will come along and insist it’s wrong. It’s quite a bone of contention over here (or is that bon?).
To me, it sounds she’s saying it just like as if it were spelled “shone” or “shoan”; that is, rhyming with “loan.” I don’t hear any ws.
See, here’s the thing–I don’t know how you pronounce John and con.
Would you mind checking here? I pronounce it like the first sound bite, my hubby like the second.
And he is from 'ipper’olme, near 'alifax.
Not sure I agree with that. I’ve always pronounced them differently. “Shone” is a very short ‘O’, but “gone” isn’t: ‘gone’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘on’ like ‘shone’ does. ‘Gone’ isn’t ‘gawn’ either in (educated) Australian English.
I’m not sure how to display the phonetics of ‘gone’, but it’s not a rhyme of any of: on, one, cone. It’s certainly closest to an ‘on’ rhyme, but it’s not an exact fit, unlike ‘shone’ which is.
Taking a guess you are referring to the links earlier in this thread, most definitely the second - except even shorter and harder on the vowel sound. I would not even guess that the first one was meant to be the same word.
Selby myself.
Referencing a long-dead thread: Are you eating that bacon with a fork yet?
Never!!! I eat bacon like God intended–with me fingers. 
Spoken like a true (adopted) Yorkshirewoman.
If your Kansas accent is anything like the accents I heard in the clip, you do indeed have an accent - clipping some vowels, broadening others, and a rhythm very different from how we speak in the Canadian prairies (and I’ve never lived anywhere that didn’t pronounce it “shon”).