desprateseagull
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scon as in gone, unless i'm invited to tea with the Queen anytime soon...
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How do you pronounce SCONE?
- Thread starter Guinness Boy
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I pronounce it to rhyme with 'cone'.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,199
after an early showing from the Hove actually brigade, NSC falls closer into line with the national average...
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
pronounce rhymed with gone but have heard it rhymed with coin=scoin but only with the sort that has a sunday times stuffed up their a**e
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Nearly 17 years on is it still scone? Or is it now scone?
No one on the Names That Change thread seems sure.
No one on the Names That Change thread seems sure.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It's never changed. Rhymes with gone.
It still rhymes with gone, which rhymes with on.
The most interesting thing about this thread is Silent Bob rhyming gone with scorn. No wonder he was exiled in 2018.
Google tells me that some Australians do in fact rhyme gone and corn. I can hear that if I do an Aussie accent in my head. It was the same in archaic RP so either Silent Bob was from the antipodes or he's a time traveller.
The most interesting thing about this thread is Silent Bob rhyming gone with scorn. No wonder he was exiled in 2018.
Google tells me that some Australians do in fact rhyme gone and corn. I can hear that if I do an Aussie accent in my head. It was the same in archaic RP so either Silent Bob was from the antipodes or he's a time traveller.
- May 8, 2018
- 10,624
Or from the east end (gaaaaawn)
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
its either, everyone knows what you mean.
just you mark yourself out as posh if you rhyme with cone.
just you mark yourself out as posh if you rhyme with cone.
I've just posted this same rhyme again on another thread - seventeen years later!
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
they only do it for the attention.I find myself struggling to care how it's pronounced. It pales into insignificance when compared to the decision of cream on jam or jam on cream.
Some idiots prefer to put jam on first.
JetsetJimbo
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- Jun 13, 2011
- 1,166
I pronounce it "scone", obviously. Only absolute maniacs pronounce it as "scone" instead.
I have now totally changed and pronounce it to rhyme with 'gone'.
Some idiots prefer to put jam on first.
I'm not bothered about the order of jam and cream. Does it make a difference?
I can see a slight advantage in putting cream on top, Cornish-style, in that you get a more even covering of jam.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
I grew up in t'North saying "scone", but having lived in the South East for more than half my life I say "scone".
(then again, my brother, who has had a similar life trajectory, still says "scone" and "bath" and "plaster", so...
)
(then again, my brother, who has had a similar life trajectory, still says "scone" and "bath" and "plaster", so...
)
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
My Welsh friend calls them scorns.