different between shown vs shoon

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?n/
  • Rhymes: -??n
  • Homophone: shone (one pronunciation)
• (UK) IPA^(key): /????n/

Verb

shown

1. past participle of show

   I had shown him the report already.

   The report had already been shown to him.

Usage notes

• Garner's Modern American Usage favors shown over showed as past participle and claims it is mandatory for passives. In other forms of English shown is the only correct past participle.

English

Etymology

Equivalent to shoe +? -en.

Noun

shoon

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of shoe
   • 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey in Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114:

     If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
     Sitt thee downe and putt them on
     But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean
     The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane

   • 1901, Anna Hempstead Branch, The heart of the road:

     Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]

   • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world:

     It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.

Anagrams

• Hoons, hoons