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How do you pronounce Scone?

  • 01-01-2012 07:35PM
    #1
    Brendan97
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Brendan97


    How do you pronounce Scone?

    How do you pronounce Scone? 196 votes

    S-con
    0% 0 votes
    S-cone
    14% 29 votes
    Other (please specify)
    85% 167 votes


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  • #2
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    easy

    scone


  • #3
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    sssssssssssssssssssssssssss-cone


  • #4
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    I say 'cone' but add an S at the beginning :pac:


  • #5
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,387 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Brendan97 wrote: »
    How do you pronounce Scone?

    I don't, I just point at them in the shop.


  • #6
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    If it was pronounced "s-con" then it'd be spelled scon.

    But it's spelled scone, so it's pronounced "s-cone".


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  • #7
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    I pronounce it Scon mother****ers.


  • #8
    seantorious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭seantorious


    One of them buttery yokes.


  • #9
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    Strawberry jam, Devon clotted cream the only way to have a scone


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Q. What's the fastest food in the world?

    A. Scone.

    (It's gone)



    Gets coat.


  • #11
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    We're losing badly here lads. Come on the scons. Let's show them people who say scones who's boss ! !


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  • #12
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    This way.


  • #13
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Skown

    That other pronunciation is contrived to sound posh, like "a nistoric"


  • #14
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    S-cone

    i don't know why people pronounce it s-con, if english is your native language it's a pretty easy word to pronounce once you look at it.


  • #15
    DundalkDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    skown. As in the place name in Scotland.


  • #16
    Niles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


    Sch-own.


  • #17
    wildefalcon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭wildefalcon


    skon


  • #18
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,387 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I asked the maid in dulcet tone
    To order me a buttered scone
    The silly girl has been and gone
    And ordered me a buttered scone


  • #19
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    I pronounce it shít


  • #20
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Brendan97 wrote: »
    How do you pronounce Scone?

    Remove the S. Now pronounce the word you see.



    Now put the S back.


  • #21
    prettygurrly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭prettygurrly


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I asked the maid in dulcet tone
    To order me a buttered scone
    The silly girl has been and gone
    And ordered me a buttered scone

    i think that sums it up....

    i actually have been known to say both, depending on the phrasing of the question...much like either ither...neither nither... (obviously misspelt for pronunciation sake, I know they're spelt the same regardless)


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  • #22
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Brendan97 wrote: »
    How do you pronounce Scone?

    Bun or fruit bun.


  • #23
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    There's the Stone of Scone, a red sandstone block above which British monarchs are crowned.

    Underneath St Edward's Chair, which is situated inside Westminster Abbey and has been used, since 1308, to seat the English and then British monarch during his or her coronation, there is a cavity in which the stone is supposed to be fitted.

    The stone permanently resided in the cavity until 1996 when the thieving Scots nicked it and took it to Edinburgh Castle, saying they'll only return it on a temporary basis during coronations.

    Anyway, the word "Scone" in "Stone of Scone" is pronounced like "skoon."


  • #24
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,387 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Here is more fun with spelling and pronunciation.

    http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php


  • #25
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Apple


  • #26
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    plein de force wrote: »
    S-cone

    i don't know why people pronounce it s-con, if english is your native language it's a pretty easy word to pronounce once you look at it.
    S-con is the Scottish pronunciation. Any idea where Scones were invented? Hint: it's north of England. :cool:

    Of course you have the right to pronounce it any way you like, but how would you react if a tourist came to Dublin and ordered a pint of "Guy-ness" or "Gooey-ness"? Both are more phonetic pronunciations, aren't they?

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #27
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    When im feeling posh i say scon, the rest of the time I say scone.


  • #28
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Aoifey! wrote: »
    If it was pronounced "s-con" then it'd be spelled scon.

    But it's spelled scone, so it's pronounced "s-cone".

    As in gone or should that be gon


  • #29
    Motavato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Motavato


    Well, as Rachel Allenwould call it, a skune !


  • #30
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    a skindiddlyboobop


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  • #31
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,290 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Kiera wrote: »
    This way.


    That thread only seemed like yesterday, here's my favourite post on it::pac:

    ejmaztec wrote: »
    It's scone before it's eaten and scon afterwards.


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