How do you pronounce "skein"?

General Knitting
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I lived the first 14 years of my life in OK, then the last 36 here in Texas. I’ve always pronounced, and heard it pronounced, as skane…until last year. My sis-in-law, born and raised in Texas pronounced it skeen. I immediately assumed it was just her error, though, since she truly mispronounces many words. :roll:

Julie, until today (thank you, by the way! :thumbsup: ) , I did not know how to pronounce “merino”. I always made a habit of never speaking it in front of anyone, since I had no idea how to say it. :mrgreen:

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I have never heard of this in my entire life on this planet, and I’m 30 yrs old!!!

Thanks for the english lesson :teehee:[/quote]

I had always assumed it was like skane.
It’s like ‘neighbor’ isn’t nee-bor and ‘weigh’ isn’t wheeeeeeeeee!

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I have never heard of this in my entire life on this planet, and I’m 30 yrs old!!!

Thanks for the english lesson :teehee:[/quote]

I had always assumed it was like skane.
It’s like ‘neighbor’ isn’t nee-bor and ‘weigh’ isn’t wheeeeeeeeee![/quote]

OMG :roflhard: “I’m going wheeeee myself on the scale.” :roflhard:

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I just wanted an excuse to say ‘wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!’ :teehee:

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:shock: skane? seriously? skane?!?!! i’m just like u, i’ve always pronounced it skeen (and english is my first language :doh: ). this is what i get for teaching myself from books…

skane sounds so weird to me. i dont think i’ll change my prounciation though. i dont have any knitters around to correct me :teehee:

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there are so many exceptions, that doesn’t even qualify. haha…

“i before e, except after c, or when sounded like “a” as in neighbour or weigh.” but then what about weird, rotweiler, neither… etc. The general rule is just a good helper for kids when learning to spell.

I will pronounce it skeen till the day I die… Skane sounds awkward to me. :whistle:

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I guess I pronouse it ‘skane’ in my head. I don’t know any English speaking knitters IRL XD

But uhm. The southernmost provice of Sweden is kalled Skåne, often written Skane in English (and pronounced ska-ne in English) so this thread sounds very weird to me :roflhard: pets native province :heart:

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I have never heard of this in my entire life on this planet, and I’m 30 yrs old!!!

Thanks for the english lesson :teehee:[/quote]

“I before E except after ce or when sounding like ‘a’ as in neighbro or weigh.” BTW I used to teach English. Could you tell?

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there are so many exceptions, that doesn’t even qualify. haha…

“i before e, except after c, or when sounded like “a” as in neighbour or weigh.” but then what about weird, rotweiler, neither… etc. The general rule is just a good helper for kids when learning to spell.

I will pronounce it skeen till the day I die… Skane sounds awkward to me. :whistle:[/quote]

Well, rottweiler’s not an English word. But weird and neither/either are good examples.

(Of course, I’m a nye-ther/eye-ther gal, except when they’re the last word in the sentence.

“Eye-ther Lamb’s Pride or Malabrigo will felt, because they are both wool.”

“I don’t like Red Heart Super Saver, eeether.”)

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all rules about the English language have exceptions-frequently more exceptions than rule-followers. Is that a word? No wonder it’s the most difficult language to learn.

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I’ve always pronounced it “skane” but the owner of my LYS pronounces it “skeen”.

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I’d never heard anyone pronounce it “skeen” before… :shrug:

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I say skeen… lol in the part of WV I’m from everyone says skeen… although we also say yella for yellow :teehee: