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Scone or Scon?!

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  • #32
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,105 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Scone when it is in front of you,

    Scon when you have ate it.

    Thats how i say it anyways.


  • #33
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Who the **** says scon?


  • #34
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Are we removing "n's" from words too ? ;)

    Touché.... I don't have the anatomy for that though! :D


  • #35
    Fittle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭Fittle


    seamus wrote: »
    "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

    That's coz they can't talk proper in Scotland....;)


  • #36
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Fittle wrote: »
    That's coz they can't talk proper in Scotland....;)

    Or England.


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  • #37
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2262365955

    Wikipedia says 2/3rds of British people (99% of Scots) pronounce it like 'gone'.


  • #38
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Its scone not scon <wtf is scon.

    Its Vase not vaase and **** it while we're at it its not humid its bloody close!


  • #39
    _MadRa_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭_MadRa_


    I Wish the Landed Gentry were Still at Sea..


  • #40
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Wikipedia says 2/3rds of British people (99% of Scots) pronounce it like 'gone'.
    I believe wiki.

    Traditionally Scottish kings were crowned on a throne containing the Stone of Scone (scone having the same pronunciation as stone here) until Edward Longshanks robbed it and took it to England.

    Over the centuries the English pushed this false 'scon' thing to try and dupe the Scots and the rest of the world into believing that there never was any such thing as the 'Stone of Scone', just a funny English bun with a different name.

    Maggie or Tony fecked all that up when they gave the 'Stone of Scone' back when the Scottish County Council was formed, but now the English (and their lick-spittle west-Brit lackeys) have forgotten how to say 'scone' properly and are stuck in 600 year-old time-warp. (imho of course)


  • #41
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Scone - its not rocket science.


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  • #42
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    The only people who pronounce it 'scon' are English people and my granny.


  • #43
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    mathepac wrote: »
    I believe wiki.

    Traditionally Scottish kings were crowned on a throne containing the Stone of Scone (scone having the same pronunciation as stone here) until Edward Longshanks robbed it and took it to England.

    Over the centuries the English pushed this false 'scon' thing to try and dupe the Scots and the rest of the world into believing that there never was any such thing as the 'Stone of Scone', just a funny English bun with a different name.

    Maggie or Tony fecked all that up when they gave the 'Stone of Scone' back when the Scottish County Council was formed, but now the English (and their lick-spittle west-Brit lackeys) have forgotten how to say 'scone' properly and are stuck in 600 year-old time-warp. (imho of course)

    The town in Scotland is pronounced 'Skoon' (like 'spoon') so that blows that battleship of bullѕhit out of the water.
    emeraldstar wrote: »
    The only people who pronounce it 'scon' are English people and my granny.

    And 99% of Scottish people. Keep up.


  • #44
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Friend: Hey pablomakaveli, would you like a scon.


    My reaction: http://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ffffuuuuu.jpg


  • #45
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Rock Bun.


  • #46
    blaze1
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Scone

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

    its the opposite in england.. i say scon... poshy people would say scone.

    was only having this debate in the job the other day...

    FYI i'm not posh


  • #47
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    pickarooney wrote: »
    And 99% of Scottish people. Keep up.
    Ara whist, you. British people then.


  • #48
    milly4ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭milly4ever


    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.

    it is definitely pronounced 'scon'.
    i always thought the only people to say 'scone' were posh english types!


  • #49
    starbelgrade
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Rock Bun.

    A rock bun is like a cross between a cookie and a small cake, distinguished by the hard, crust-like texture and sweet taste. Rock buns also usually also have a sugar-crust topping.

    A scone, on the other hand, has a more bread-like texture, or can be termed a cake, if sugar is added. Both have a very distinct texture to rock buns, as they are a lot softer & have a less open and more moist texture.

    Never get the two confused... wars have been started over such small details.


  • #50
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,267 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    In England, posh people say scone, and the peasants say scon.


  • #51
    stovelid
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    A rock bun is like a cross between a cookie and a small cake, distinguished by the hard, crust-like texture and sweet taste. Rock buns also usually also have a sugar-crust topping.

    A scone, on the other hand, has a more bread-like texture, or can be termed a cake, if sugar is added. Both have a very distinct texture to rock buns, as they are a lot softer & have a less open and more moist texture.

    Never get the two confused... wars have been started over such small details.

    Aye, I meant I always go for the Rock Bun

    I'm afraid to admit it here but I do tend to call the other ones scons :o


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  • #52
    Idjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Idjit


    Scone. Funny thing is, a mate of mine only called it Scon the other day while impersonating a ridiculously posh person!


  • #53
    Liam Byrne
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    In England, posh people say scone, and the peasants say scon.

    I always thought it was the reverse.


  • #54
    starbelgrade
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    stovelid wrote: »
    I'm afraid to admit it here but I do tend to call the other ones scons :o

    Peasant / Posh git *

    * = incorrect insult to be deleted when debate is concluded.


  • #55
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Scone.


  • #56
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Intelligent people call it a scone as that's what it is, idiots who use makey up words to describe things they don't know how to pronounce call it scon


  • #57
    Canis Lupus
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    I would associate scon with boggers.


  • #58
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    Scoff at scon.

    Scoff a scone.


  • #59
    Tabnabs
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    I prefer a nice bit of crumpet :pac:


  • #60
    admiralofthefleet
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    scone. working in bewleys drilled into me the correct pronunciation


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  • #61
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,267 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    I always thought it was the reverse.

    It could be here.:o


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