Pronouncing the word 'Scone'

[MysteryGuest]

yes he is.

very silly indeed.

Because I wouldn't join your silly club for silly people?


No.


<pretends to flick small piece of dust off left shoulder>



I don't think so.



<examines nails>



Running around in Y-fronts with jelly on my face is not my idea of an adult, sensible, or indeed enjoyable time.



I'm sure the badge is lovely though.



All pretty and shiny!

 

[milesy]

you bloody watch who you're rolling your eyes at, young man!!!

 

[MysteryGuest]

How can you watch people you're rolling your eyes at?


Tit.

 

[Masseuse]

Did Mystery Guest just call me a fat slag?

You cunt Mystery Guest!

Only milesy is allowed to call me that you cunt!

 

[milesy]

How can you watch people you're rolling your eyes at?


Tit.

okay....pedantic twerp....

if you roll your eyes at me again I shall poke them out with a dolphin's winky!!

 

[MysteryGuest]

This is all perfectly ludicrous.

 

[silentNate]

This word is traditionally pronounced with a short o, rhyming with gone, though now it is more commonly pronounced with a long o, rhyming with stone, according to experts. I disagree. Just wanted to post to stick out my tongue at Epona as she is obviously posh

 

[Masseuse]

Bundle!

 

[MysteryGuest]

Yaaaay!

 

[Masseuse]

Yippee!

 

[MysteryGuest]

Phwoaaar!

 

[MysteryGuest]

Thanks for that, Massy

ewwwwwwww!

 

[MysteryGuest]

<cleans up after Massy>

 

[Epona]

This word is traditionally pronounced with a short o, rhyming with gone, though now it is more commonly pronounced with a long o, rhyming with stone, according to experts. I disagree. Just wanted to post to stick out my tongue at Epona as she is obviously posh

Oh ffs, yeah of course I'm posh

 

[silentNate]

Someone just pointed out that poll said 'English only'

Surely thats rascist

 

[steeplejack]

Look, no decent Welshman's ever going to be found eating something called a scone are they? Only the most deluded and most turncoat-Taffy would turn aside the wonderful Welsh cake in favour of the dull old scone...

beth ots am gennyf fi am tiesiau'r Alban?

For why then your pisspoor advocacy of the incorrect pronounciation?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Look saddoes, if the cake goddess had meant it to be pronounced to rhyme with "john" she'd have spelt it "sconn", wouldn't she?

It "scone", pronounced to rhyme with "joan", and anyone who thinks otherwise tongues Ern's bumcrack.

Oh, and anyone who pronounces it "skern" is a fucking Geordie fence-sitter who should have a traffic cone shoved up their arse.

 

[inferno]

Doesn't take much sussing out, if you live in the north of England it's pronounced Scon

If you're a southern jessie it's pronounced scone to rhyme with Joan

 

[Griff]

Oh, and anyone who pronounces it "skern" is a fucking Geordie fence-sitter who should have a traffic cone shoved up their arse.

It's John/Scone BTW.

(From my Geordie background: Me Mum.)

 

[red rose]

I'm so glad scone/john is winning

I only wish that every time this argument cropped up I could quote this poll

"well we took a vote on the pronounciation on this internet bulletin board I post on and it was deffinately scone/john that won"

Somehow I don't think it would be taken as the last word...

 

[Orang Utan]

I think Goldencitrone settled it right at the beginning - the joke doesn't make sense if it rhymes with Joan.
I am a non-posh Northerner and it definitely rhymes with John.

 

[longdog]

Someone just pointed out that poll said 'English only'

Surely thats rascist

No!

You're assuming that black / asian / whatever people born in this green and pleasant land aren't English.

So that make YOU the rascist.

RASCIST!

<points denouncing finger, garbs pitchfork and burning torch>

 

[Velouria]

For me ...

the food rhymes with John

and the place rhymes with June

 

[Cloo]

I pronounce it 'semprini'.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The only way to pronounce scone is the first option, to sound like John - the other way is posy and pretentious southern nancy nonsense

Us northerners know how to speak proper like

The same sort of question could be asked for any of the following words:

nougat
grass
bath
path
glass
etc....

Of course it goes without saying that the northern pronunciation is the correct pronunciation

 

[geminisnake]

Scone= John all over Scotland, the home of said comestible.
The town of Scone in Perthshire, home of the sandstone cludgie cover known as the "Stone of Scone", is however pronounced as "Skoon".

Agree with steeplejack here. I have never heard a scot say scone= joan in my life. Not only do we have scones we have tattie scones. Yum!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not only do we have scones we have tattie scones. Yum!

You only have tattie scones because you scots seem to be under the impression that it is legal requirement to have spuds with everything, even cakes and stuff

Here is a site which claims tattie scones have heroin in them!

 

[surplus]

or of course there is the scone as in the palace with rhymes with spoon

posh people and scottish apparently call it a scone with joan, and riff raff call it scone with john.

riff raff am I

i thought it was a north/south difference.

i say scone like joan. make of that what you will.

 

[Orang Utan]

The same sort of question could be asked for any of the following words:

nougat
grass
bath
path
glass
etc....

Of course it goes without saying that the northern pronunciation is the correct pronunciation

There's only one correct way to pronounce nougat - NOO-GAH.
The rest are pronounced with a nice short a, except Bath when it's the place and then it's BAAATH.
Book, Look and Fuck are pronounced the same too!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There's only one correct way to pronounce nougat - NOO-GAH.
The rest are pronounced with a nice short a, except Bath when it's the place and then it's BAAATH.
Book, Look and Fuck are pronounced the same too!

Bollocks!

In case you haven't noticed, 'nougat' has the letter 't' at the end - and only soft southerners drop letters like this