How To Pronounce Shame

In British English, shame is pronounced /ʃeɪm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ʃeɪ̃m]. In American English, it is pronounced /ʃeɪm/.

Shame has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.