how do you pronounce....

[Uwcheese]

I have never heard anyone ever say it skine or skeen. It must be a midwest thing for us to say skane, huh?

uwcheese

debbie

[IdleHands]

Neither. I say sk ay n with a long a.

 

 

I pronounce it the same way.

[rlou313]

ok ladies (and gentlemen)... i've been wondering.

 

do you guys say

 

skINE.......or.........skEEN?

 

i've got a little german background, so i took german in high school. and i've always said skein with an "eye" sound, because in german, ei=I and ie=E.

 

but i was wandering though the yarn section of jo-ann the other day, and i heard this woman saying she would need about 4 skeens. i just thought it sounded a little funny.

 

so how do you pronounce skein, and perhaps why?

lol well maybe it might be a german thing. I'm 1/2 german and I say it the same way you do:yes

[Cherokee2]

I say "skane" and most of the people I know say it the same way.

[misssmaggie]

skāne

[contrary.crocheter]

the way I say it rhymes with vein. I pronounce it like my mom

[PBLKNP]

the way I say it rhymes with vein. I pronounce it like my mom

 

That's the way I've heard it's supposed to be pronounced. I used to say "skeen" until someone corrected me.

[shayken]

skane like lane

[Sofia]

me too -- skane like lane

[dkb1116]

skein?

 

i say, "skANE"

 

i've not heard it any other way. that's how mom, my grandmother, my aunts, etc. pronounce the word. but i am not around crafters much now and then again, it isn't something that non-crafter's banter about!

grins, debra

[teeheenah]

double treble ditto...long a

 

T-

[namffoc]

Skane

[MaryPat]

I just looked it up in the OED. It came from an older English word "skeyne" and doesn't appear to be German. "Skeyne" in British Englist would almost be a cross between the 2 pronounciations of skane and skine.

 

Another definition of this pronounciation is, as someone mentioned:

b. A flight of wild fowl.

 

 

Some other defn's in the OED that do have Germanic origins:

1. A split of osier after being dressed for use in fine basket-work.

2. U.S. A metal head or thimble protecting the spindle of a wooden axle.

These are said to be cognates with "SHIN" (thin narrow piece) -- does that mean kind of sharing the same ancestor?

[texasredhead]

I say SKANE. But that is weird really, because the word doesn't really fit the rules of spelling. It must have a root word from another language. The Germans pronounce the secon vowel, so they would say SKINE, so it must not be a german word. I would be interesting to know its origin.

[HerDawn]

In MA we say skane.

[TwistedStitchCrochet]

I have always said it like skeen, never heard it with the long a. Have I been saying it wrong all these years?...lol...

[proudmama762003]

me too skane

[grannyjudy]

I say 'skane'. Never heard it pronounced any other way.

[Schmetterling]

Long "a."

[Cliffnote]

I also say skane...

 

Kim

[ChiMom79]

I have always said it as skeen... that's wrong? LOL!

[contrary.crocheter]

I say skane...because that is how my mom pronounces it so it is what I had always heard

[sparkyharky]

Long A here too..never heard it pronounced any other way and I have lived all over the continental US....

[forestergirl]

long a. It's like the debate over wether it's pop or soda or coke - just depends on you.

[LavenderRose]

Long a here, following the old spelling rhyme: I before E, except after C, or when sounded A, as in NEIGHBOR and WEIGH.