I've been debating this for some time now soo........How do u pronounce this word: scone? Do u say it scone like skon (sounds like "con"). Or do u say it like scone (sounds like "cone")?
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Moved to non-winbolo stuff, since this is not winbolo related.
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C'mon pplz, i need ur opinions!
I don’t believe there right or wrong pronunciation to this, as it would change dependant upon region, sociological and other backgrounds. As Bill Bryson put it in his book, Mother Tongue:
“Fashion comes into it too. When the custom arose in eighteenth-century Britain of pronouncing words like bath and path with a broad a rather then a flat one, the practice was imitated along the eastern seaboard, but no further inland, where people were clearly less susceptible to considerations of what fashionable society thought of them. In Boston, the new fashion was embraced to such an extent that up to the middle of the last century, according to H. L. Mencken, people used the broad a in such improbably words as apple, hammer, practical and Saturday.” (P100)
I think it would of been similarly fashionable to pronounce scone with a long o vowel sound.
Personally, I think it should be a deviant pronunciation... something like
....skwoooonee.... rhymes with swaneee.
some people say tomato, potato and others say tomatoe, potatoe. Well i say tom-a-toe.
:idea: I am glad to see that in the midst of our international crisis-es, we can still discuss the most trivial of trivialities amongst each other... It is much like a meeting in Congress. Keep the dream alive! 8)
Btw every1. Regardless what the dictionaries say, "scone" (cone type) is the proper, english way of saying it. For all u ppl out there that speak the degraded form of english (also known as "american"), feel free to speak it in whatever messed-up way u like. (also note that most canadians say scone (cone type).)
Dammit! More ppl should vote in polls!
wtf...im glad someone used a dic. cus i had not clue wtf a scone or whatever u spell it is. but take the word cone...like ice cream and add an s in front of it.....now ask how do u pronounce it....sheesh mm.
dont shoot me.
...For all u ppl out there that speak the degraded form of english (also known as "american")...
AHEM AHEM!!!!!!! I'm from the United States. I am proud of it!!! If you're English, does something from history come to mind??? Like that WE BEAT YOU IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR??? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :lol: look, you think you're so cool when we defeated you loooong ago. we got away from parliament and king george, i think he was. Anyway, DONT INSULT AMERICAN LANGUAGE
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