# Past tense of the verb "shine" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951 "2009-03-18T21:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951/21 "2009-03-19T11:16:40Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Yeah, the OED isn’t generally too concerned with maintaining comprehensive American pronunciation information; e.g., the only pronunciation of “harass” it recognizes is the one which rhymes with “Paris”, rather than the one that sounds like “her ass”. Really? The latter is the British pronunciation, not the ‘Paris’ version. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951/22 "2009-03-20T00:13:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Hmmmm, I have never, ever heard “shone” pronounced any differently than “shown” (both rhyme with “bone”). “[Fell in Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoiY-ottNPs)” by Moxy Früvous, a Canadian group. Listen for the way they pronounce “sunshine shone” at 1:18 and 2:47. \*\*\* Ponder ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951/23 "2009-03-20T00:27:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Is that “sun” example transitive? “The sun shone” would be a sentence and the verb is unmistakably intransitive - I don’t believe adding an indirect object makes it transitive. Otherwise, I agree 100%. I guess I didn’t really mean transitive, there. I meant that, in some sense, using “shone” seemed more important when it had an indirect object. Of course, on looking at it again, I’m not seeing the distinction there that I apparently saw when I posted it, so easier just to drop that entire clause starting with “especially”. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951/24 "2009-03-20T00:33:24Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > ‘Hanged’ vs. ‘hung’ is an interesting case, in that ‘hanged’ has survived at all (AFAIK) only in relation to executions. Blazing Saddles: [Bart returns unexpectedly after being sentenced to death] Charlie: They said you was hung. Bart: And they was right. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951/25 "2009-03-20T00:57:25Z")
Shone ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951/26 "2009-03-20T01:30:18Z")
The _American Heritage Dictionary_ gives “shōn” as the ōnly pronunciation of “shone.” _Shōn_ as in 少年 _Shōnen Knife_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/past-tense-of-the-verb-shine/489951.md?page=1)