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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've always said scone - as in stone...
In traditional English grammar the e makes the o long.
Scon as in ton isn't strictly right, but then I think the word has a Scottish origin, so perhaps our Northern friends could put us right? |
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By *abzogMan
over a year ago
South coast |
"I've always said scone - as in stone...
In traditional English grammar the e makes the o long.
Scon as in ton isn't strictly right, but then I think the word has a Scottish origin, so perhaps our Northern friends could put us right?"
I've always been told it originated in the West Country (Devon/Cornwall) where it's pronounce "s-con" not "s-cone" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've always been told it originated in the West Country (Devon/Cornwall) where it's pronounce "s-con" not "s-cone""
see i be from down 'ere and i pronounce it Sk-own
*said in finest west country dialect lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I say sc-own and not sc-on. I've no idea what is the right or wrong way.
How do people say baby or naan bread. I say bay-bee, and narn. I'm not keen on babby or nan  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I say sc-own and not sc-on. I've no idea what is the right or wrong way.
How do people say baby or naan bread. I say bay-bee, and narn. I'm not keen on babby or nan "
same bay bee, narn.
barth (for the Town).. baff (for the tub filled with water) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Tomayto tomarto
Potayto potarto
Let's call the whole thing off 
I pronounce every damn thing wrong... meh.. you get my meaning  "
Some find it pleasant
Dining on pheasant
Those things roll off my comb !
I never was cut out
To step and strut out
Give me the simple life    |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"s gon
Though phonetically it's Skown
like home and rome ..... no one says im going hom to rom
mind you ...... we say it's Gon... not it's gowne ...... shit... Englush is ard."
That's what happens when you get a mongrel language. It's rich, quirky, can look a bit odd and is utterly beautiful. I do like mongrels. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"s gon
Though phonetically it's Skown
like home and rome ..... no one says im going hom to rom
mind you ...... we say it's Gon... not it's gowne ...... shit... Englush is ard.
That's what happens when you get a mongrel language. It's rich, quirky, can look a bit odd and is utterly beautiful. I do like mongrels."
Ah yes! But lay down wiv a dog n ya get up wiv a flea - so goes the saying! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"s gon
Though phonetically it's Skown
like home and rome ..... no one says im going hom to rom
mind you ...... we say it's Gon... not it's gowne ...... shit... Englush is ard.
That's what happens when you get a mongrel language. It's rich, quirky, can look a bit odd and is utterly beautiful. I do like mongrels.
Ah yes! But lay down wiv a dog n ya get up wiv a flea - so goes the saying! "
Fleas flee when faced with fleabags flouting flighty words about curs, hounds, bowwows and mutts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I asked the maid in dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scone.
I prefer the gone pronunciation... as does the dictionary and most of the population.
Also this joke doesn't work with the tone way...
What't the fastest cake in the world? Scone
Anything that deprives the world of a joke (even a bad one) is just plain wrong! |
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like this, you pronounce the c and the g!
