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shon for the rest of us, like shot and shop and Ron and Don Oh, that sounds so wrong to me! It's like tsuwm said: if there's an e on the end, that makes the vowel LONG. I can't think of one single word we use that has the shon sound. Sean comes close, but that's really more of a shawn, usually.
Right back at ya Jackie. In OzLand it's shon - and scon. No trailing vowel rule applied.
And as for Shorn - no way does Sean come out the same as shon!
Finally I betcha don't say "own" when pronouncing the number preceding two!! (Edit: ....as mentioned by others)
100 degrees F today - busy trying to think of reasons to stay in the office. Certainly don't want to go driving about in my 40yo, vinyl seated/non air conditioned marque!
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