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Pronounced Joe "Shone", or "Shane"?

lawguy9801 : 1/21/2022 3:32 pm

I thought I heard someone on the radio pronounce "Schoen" as "Shane." Was I hearing things?

Its pronounced

bLiTz 2k : 1/21/2022 3:33 pm : link

Shane.

Pronounced as Shane.

BLUATHRT : 1/21/2022 3:33 pm : link

No, you weren't

Anakim : 1/21/2022 3:33 pm : link

It's pronounced "Shane". It's a German name. Means beautiful.

It's "Shane"

DanBenton : 1/21/2022 3:34 pm : link

Dunder Mifflin is a part of Sabre.

After my favorite movie, “Shane.”

Big Blue '56 : 1/21/2022 3:35 pm : link

Also Muhammad Ali’s favorite movie..😎

Schön

regulator : 1/21/2022 3:40 pm : link

RE: Schön

BocaGene : 1/21/2022 3:55 pm : link

Ah, remember the umlaut.

Once, I pronounced to my German colleagues that the weather in Hamburg today was "sehr schule" as in "very humid". However the same word with an umlaut translates to "very homosexual/gay". They laughed and corrected me on the pronunciation of the umlaut!

Danke schoen

Boatie Warrant : 1/21/2022 3:56 pm : link

Oh baby danke schoen!

Shayna

TroyArchersGhost : 1/21/2022 4:09 pm : link

In Yiddish also means beautiful, as in shayna punim (beautiful face).

RE: Danke schoen

HMunster : 1/21/2022 4:11 pm : link

In comment 15565332 Boatie Warrant said:

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Oh baby danke schoen!

or as in

Vanzetti : 1/21/2022 4:47 pm : link

shayna meidel :))

All along, I was pronouncing it

Section331 : 1/21/2022 4:49 pm : link

"SHOW-in", showin' everyone how illiterate I am!

I listened to some god awful NY Giant podcast this week

Jimmy Googs : 1/21/2022 4:52 pm : link

and the lead moron talking kept mispronouncing it as Shone.

it was ponderous to say the least...

in German it's not really pronounced like 'shane' though -

Del Shofner : 1/21/2022 5:00 pm : link

it's sort of in between 'shane' and 'shurn.'

RE: in German it's not really pronounced like 'shane' though -

Scooter185 : 1/21/2022 5:14 pm : link

In comment 15565486 Del Shofner said:

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it's sort of in between 'shane' and 'shurn.'

I'd say the actual word is pronounced like 'shoon', the Norwegian cognate skjønn is kind of like 'shun' and the word schon (meaning already) is closer to shin.

Shane is a common anglicization of the word though

I thought it was skone for awhile

eli4life : 1/21/2022 5:20 pm : link

RE: After my favorite movie, “Shane.”

Since1965 : 1/21/2022 5:43 pm : link

In comment 15565280 Big Blue '56 said:

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Also Muhammad Ali’s favorite movie..😎

A great book and movie!

But then the hockey player/announcer

lawguy9801 : 1/21/2022 6:39 pm : link

Jim Schoenfeld was not "shane" but more like "shon" (short o).