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Scone or Scon?!

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  • 07-07-2010 12:31pm
    #1
    Lara_Croft.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Ok so bascially i need to get a majority of people on my side to say that 'SCON' is the correct pronunciation and not 'SCONE'! Now i might be entirely wrong with my pronuniciation of it but it's just annoying when you have people saying back to you that you that 'IT'S SCONE AND NOT SCON!' :D


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    Novella
    Registered Users Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Do you say 'con' instead of cone? No. So it is SCONE.


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    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    It's scone, unless you're one of those people. If ya say it your way it i'd have no idea what you were saying. Especially if we were talking on the phon.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If you use the word's actual spelling as one of the options for pronouncing it, you're kind of working against yourself.

    I pronounce it to rhyme with 'cone' rather than 'gone'.


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    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    What the hell is a 'Scon'???


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    petes
    Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Scone. End of.


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    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    NothingMan wrote: »
    It's scone, unless you're one of those people. If ya say it your way it i'd have no idea what you were saying. Especially if we were talking on the phon.

    ^Sniggered




    Yes its 'S-cone".


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    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    cake


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    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Yeah definately rhymes with "bone". Scon? Where the hell did you grow up?


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    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Scone

    Only wannabe posh people who think they are landed gentry say scon


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    Ilyushin76
    Registered Users Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Ilyushin76


    Scone if there is butter on it.Scon without.


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    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    add a poll OP (or should that be pol?). It will further add to your humiliation!


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    Dilynnio
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Dilynnio


    it's SCON alroite!


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    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    I never ask the butcher for 'T-bon' steaks, or should that be 'stee-ax'. :confused:


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    Faith+1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Bannana


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    #16
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Your all wrong, if your unsure just call it a 99.


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    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    pickarooney wrote: »
    If you use the word's actual spelling as one of the options for pronouncing it, you're kind of working against yourself.

    I pronounce it to rhyme with 'cone' rather than 'gone'.

    or rhyme it with hone, tone, bone, lone, cone and zone rather that done, none and gone


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    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Scone

    Only wannabe posh people who think they are landed gentry say scon


    I've only heard the ahjaysishowiye's saying it actually.


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    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    scone-rhymes with bone.

    You're not really doing very well here are you? :pac:

    I think, maybe , up the North they say scon. I know a few people who do pronounce it like that, and they are all from that direction.


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    Dunjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7mzUejH5iM


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    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    There's a bloke in here that I keep winding up, he's stopped saying scon around me now because i'd promptly say scone after him...


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    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    orourkeda wrote: »
    or rhyme it with hone, tone, bone, lone, cone and zone rather that done, none and gone

    Now we're in scun territory.


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    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    I pronounce it the same way as the OP, to rhyme with 'gone'. It doesn't bother me when people pronounce it to rhyme with 'cone', but it does bother me when people seem to take it really personally that I pronounce it different to them because it makes me sound 'posh' :rolleyes: and try to convince me to say it like they do. Both pronunciations are correct, so fúck off with your inferiority complex. Oh, and I also say yoghurt with a hard 'o' :P


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,015 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It's scone before it's eaten and scon afterwards.


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    #25
    Lara_Croft.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Lara_Croft.ie


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    scone-rhymes with bone.

    You're not really doing very well here are you? :pac:

    I think, maybe , up the North they say scon. I know a few people who do pronounce it like that, and they are all from that direction.


    No, it doesn't seem to be going my way at all! nothing really does anyway if you post in 'After Hours' :p You kinda expect people to say the opposite!


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    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Its Scone. (pronounced skwun).

    It rhymes with one. I thought everyone knew that.


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    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Fishie wrote: »
    I pronounce it the same way as the OP, to rhyme with 'gone'. It doesn't bother me when people pronounce it to rhyme with 'cone', but it does bother me when people seem to take it really personally that I pronounce it different to them because it makes me sound 'posh' :rolleyes: and try to convince me to say it like they do. Both pronunciations are correct, so fúck off with your inferiority complex. Oh, and I also say yoghurt with a hard 'o' :P


    Now that's odd cos I would have said poshos would say scon and yog-hurt and normies would say scone and yo-ghurt. But you've destroyed my convention and done gone mixed it up all together! I smell something fishie!!!


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Fishie wrote: »
    Oh, and I also say yoghurt with a hard 'o' :P

    Are we removing "n's" from words too ? ;)


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    Lara_Croft.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Lara_Croft.ie


    Fishie wrote: »
    I pronounce it the same way as the OP, to rhyme with 'gone'. It doesn't bother me when people pronounce it to rhyme with 'cone', but it does bother me when people seem to take it really personally that I pronounce it different to them because it makes me sound 'posh' :rolleyes: and try to convince me to say it like they do. Both pronunciations are correct, so fúck off with your inferiority complex. Oh, and I also say yoghurt with a hard 'o' :P

    Touché ;)


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    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Novella wrote: »
    Do you say 'con' instead of cone? No. So it is SCONE.

    *voice in back of crowd* I say 'con'!


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    "Scon" is the preferred British way of saying it, which is why anyone pronouncing it "Scon" in Ireland is likely to attract a particularly fervent opposition to it, even if the person complaining isn't entirely sure why they hate it.

    However, even in the UK, "Scone" is slowly gaining popularity and will probably become the majority pronunciation in the UK within 50 years.

    Interestingly in Scotland, "Scone" is almost unheard of and almost everyone prefers "Scon".

    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/survey-report-icphs.pdf


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