Scone or Scon?!

pickarooney

CrazySnakeLady wrote: »

Is Wikipedia the be all and end all of every question on the internet? I mean seriously if the answer to every question is on the almighty wiki why bother asking the question then? my reply gave an alternative whereas your reply is the result of a wikipedia search,

Yeah, but your reply was completely and utterly insane, in fairness.
'Scootland' indeed

monkeyfudge

I agree with everything Fishie has said in this thread...

Although I skipped page 2.

Ollchailin

It's most definitely SCONE. God I love em.

Actually in Kilkenny around the early 90's a "scon" was when you got the shift/scored/kissed someone etc, i.e. "He sconned her outside Da Vinci's last night". Was a bit before my time but I heard it the odd time & I knew it didn't have anything to do with delicious baked goods.

chasm

Scone (sc-own) in Ireland, and Scone( scon) in England. People will always pronounce words differently due to accent and their own local dialect, live with it!! But having said that i refuse to take english lessons from people who run on "Threadmills" and write in forums on "treads"

Celly Smunt

sco-win

t4k30

Scone.

Ann22

Scone's definitely winning this

Qualitymark

Ann22 wrote: »

Scone's definitely winning this

What does it matter? If I say 'scon' to you, you understand what I mean, just as I understand what you mean when you say 'scone' to me. Both are correct, anyway.

ollaetta

It's scone! Hyacinth Bucket has a lot to answer for.

VinnyTGM

Scone for the win.

SoupyNorman

Ann22 wrote: »

Scone's definitely winning this

Scone had won by post #2.

elchupanebrey

Scone before i eat it.
After itscon.:o

convert

The Oxford Dictionary recognises both pronunciations.

But I've grown up with scone, so for me it will always be scone and not scon. Scone sounds much nice, too!

EverybodyLies

It's scone! Also, book is pronounced book (as in look) and not buck!

pickarooney

EverybodyLies wrote: »

It's scone! Also, book is pronounced book (as in look) and not buck!

That's a bit like trying to explain green by saying it's green-coloured.

Dr.Sanchez

I remember getting in a big fight with a welsh guy over this scone/scon thing while traveling Australia...

He tried to convince me that a full one was a scone but when cut in half it was a scon, what a tool!

Laphroaig52

Can I have another bun Mammy?

InTheTrees

Its pronounced SKON

That is all...

Laphroaig52

EverybodyLies wrote: »

It's scone! Also, book is pronounced book (as in look) and not buck!

My girl calls it a buuuuk.......but she's from Dublin and they talk funny.

Chicken Run

what's the fastest cake ??

s'gone

EverybodyLies

pickarooney wrote: »

That's a bit like trying to explain green by saying it's green-coloured.

How else do you describe it?

Fizzical

It was always pronounced scon until people saw it written down - and figured they'd pronounced it wrong!

All my life I've heard people get caught in a muddle with words - thought/taught, toilet/ti-let, voylence/violence. Then they're unsure of themselves and stick to the spelling to make themselves correct.

So then we get things like bade pronounced bayed instead of bad. It's the same with often - should be pronounced offen, but people being careful to pronounce things 'properly' say of-ten...

AskMyChocolate

There isn't a blind bat's chance in hell of this ever being resolved. I come from a semi-posh area in Dublin, but from decent country stock.

Came up in a good area where posh people used to call it scon. I called it a scon, one day and me parents went mad. "It's a scone in this house young man, don't forget where you came from."
"Then, why are we aspiring to live in a scon household/area?"
"Aah **** kmows son/ ask yer mother"

We can't even decide on which is posh. How are we going to decide on what differentiates a good scone from a good scon.

I love a piece of apple tart myself.:)

chasm

EverybodyLies wrote: »

It's scone! Also, book is pronounced book (as in look) and not buck!

Is that Look as in "luke" or as in the lexical set "foot, full, look could"???;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_set

Tar.Aldarion

Ex said scon, it made me mad in the head :mad:

AskMyChocolate

Further to my last post, lest anybody think that my parents were snobs/knackers. Nothing could be further from the truth. They just had that awareness of the area that they lived in.

One of my dad's great lines:

"Scone won't get you beaten up. Scon might. So, why not say scone?"

I'm sure the premise is the same regardless of where you grew up or the interchangeibility of the pronounciation.:)

Rubberlegs

Its scone! If it was meant to be scon there wouldn't be a fuppin e on the end:D. Scon does me head in, people who think they're posh say scon:mad:

W.Shakes-Beer

my family from "norn-areland" all say skon. They're hard enough to understand as it is.

Roomic Cube

scone /thread

starlit

scone of course!