Past tense of the verb "shine"

[GorillaMan]

@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.

[Ponderoid]

@panache45

Hmmmm, I have never, ever heard “shone” pronounced any differently than “shown” (both rhyme with “bone”).

“Fell in Love” by Moxy Früvous, a Canadian group. Listen for the way they pronounce “sunshine shone” at 1:18 and 2:47.

*** Ponder

[Chronos]

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”.

[notfrommensa]

@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.

[Harmonious_Discord]

Shone

[Johanna]

The American Heritage Dictionary gives “shōn” as the ōnly pronunciation of “shone.”

Shōn as in 少年 Shōnen Knife.