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Scone or Scon?!

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  • #62
    Eddie Ere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Eddie Ere


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    I would associate scon with boggers.



    Shhhkooone actually.


  • #63
    Anthony Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Anthony Walsh


    I have only heard one person say scon but that was used in the context of 'Look at the scon on the wan'. The accent was put on btw.

    Oh and its definitely Scone, that is why it is spelt that way:cool:


  • #64
    eightyfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    Scone.

    I was in Subway getting lunch earlier today, and the D4 guy beside me pronounced lettuce in the weirdest way I've ever heard.

    "And some letch-ice."


  • #65
    Eddie Ere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Eddie Ere


    eightyfish wrote: »
    Scone.

    I was in Subway getting lunch earlier today, and the D4 guy beside me pronounced lettuce in the weirdest way I've ever heard.

    "And some letch-ice."


    I pronounced out loud, then laughed :pac:


  • #66
    Kormeera X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭Kormeera X


    i hate the word scon, its so posh. its called a scone!


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  • #67
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Kormeera X wrote: »
    i hate the word scon, its so posh. its called a scone!

    Ah, underscores. That settles that then.

    We briefly touched on 'yoghurt' earlier. Are there any insufferably barbarians out there who wish to admit to pronouncing it yogg-ert/yoag-ert?


  • #68
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    seamus wrote: »
    Interestingly in Scotland, "Scone" is almost unheard of and almost everyone prefers "Scon".
    Correct - and who invented the scone? Hint: it wasn't the Irish or the English. The word comes from the Lowland Scots "scon", meaning to strike with the flat of the hand - as you do when making scones by hand. So, you folks may all pronounce it to rhyme with "cone", but ... you're all wrong. :p

    Just to confuse matters, there's a place in Scotland called Scone, but pronounced "Scoon". It's famous for the Stone of Scone, which formed part of the coronation rituals of Scottish kings, but taken to England by Edward I.

    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



  • #69
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Scone rhymes with gone, you bunch of oiks.


  • #70
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    pickarooney wrote: »
    We briefly touched on 'yoghurt' earlier. Are there any insufferably barbarians out there who wish to admit to pronouncing it yogg-ert/yoag-ert?


    As I said it's Yo-ghurt, poshos like my gf say Yog-hurt.


  • #71
    Axton Calm Potassium
    Posts: 0 ✭ Axton Calm Potassium


    It's hilarious that in Ireland people think 'scon' is posh. It's the opposite in England. You would have got the sh*t kicked out of you for saying 'scone' at my school in Manchester. It's 'scon' in Northern Ireland as well for the same reason. And 'Yoghurt' with a long 'o' is just considered American.


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  • #72
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Ah, underscores. That settles that then.

    We briefly touched on 'yoghurt' earlier. Are there any insufferably barbarians out there who wish to admit to pronouncing it yogg-ert/yoag-ert?

    :confused: Aren't those the two valid (well, one valid plus the poncey "yogg-ert" abomination) pronunciations ?

    http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=yoghurt

    Mind you, that site does like hedging its bets :

    http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=scone


  • #73
    Scarydoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Scarydoll


    Scone as in I'm s'goin mad readin this tread.


  • #74
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,267 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    [quote=[Deleted User];66796656]It's hilarious that in Ireland people think 'scon' is posh. It's the opposite in England. You would have got the sh*t kicked out of you for saying 'scone' at my school in Manchester. It's 'scon' in Northern Ireland as well for the same reason. And 'Yoghurt' with a long 'o' is just considered American.[/QUOTE]

    ...and also, don't forget those French cars that only exist in Ireland, Pewjoe and Rennolt.:pac:
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #75
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Everyday i thank my God that I have a job. That is all I will be gon now.


  • #76
    CrazySnakeLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭CrazySnakeLady


    The word comes from the Stone of Scone the stone that Scottish kings were crowned on in the City Scone, considering that it was originally a Scottish word both pronouncations may be wrong because Scottish people roll their vowels and replace "o" with "u" while speaking so the original pronounciation would have been more like "Scuun" in the same way that they pronounce Scottish as "Scuttish" and Look as "Luuk"


  • #77
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    CrazySnakeLady wrote: »
    The word comes from the Stone of Scone
    Please see my post above and/or Wikipedia. "Scone" - the cake - is derived from the Lowland Scots "scon". Scone ("skoon"), the name of the place (and stone), is derived from Gaelic. They may look the same in the English alphabet, but they have totally different origins.

    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



  • #78
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    According to this authority http://www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/american/scone

    Rhymes with gone is American

    Rhymes with bone is English


  • #79
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    its pronounced scone.

    unless you are 50+ or from the west, in which case scon is the usual


  • #80
    skywalker_208
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    Its Scone!
    definately Scone!

    Scon is not a real word :)


  • #81
    billymitchell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭billymitchell


    Ah, tomato tomato :rolleyes:


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  • #82
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    It's scone, the e isn't silent.

    Young Biff: Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
    Old Biff: It's *leave*, you idiot! "Make like a tree, and leave." You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
    Young Biff: All right then, LEAVE! And take your book with you!


  • #83
    CrazySnakeLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭CrazySnakeLady


    bnt wrote: »
    Please see my post above and/or Wikipedia. "Scone" - the cake - is derived from the Lowland Scots "scon". Scone ("skoon"), the name of the place (and stone), is derived from Gaelic. They may look the same in the English alphabet, but they have totally different origins.

    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, if that was what the OP was looking for I'm pretty sure he could have just done that search himself. I honestly believe the phrase "Where's your source on that?" is the scourge of every forum on the internet because no one thinks for themselves anymore, you ask a question and straight away 20 people reply with a link to a wiki page and another 20 post a links to random pages that totaly contradict wiki so whats the point? if 20 + pages all contradict each other then no one is right, there's just as much chance at this point that I am right as there is that your are right.


  • #84
    Snow Leopard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Snow Leopard


    it's shcone. "Throw us over an aul' shcone and a cup of tae there and sher that'll be grand"

    I'm a bogger :D


  • #85
    dlambirl
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    SCONE... definitely!


  • #86
    Anthony Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Anthony Walsh


    I'm from the west and i say Scone but to be fair I am no bogger. It's not scon, I agree schone is more acceptable


  • #87
    cbyrd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭cbyrd


    in our house its scone.. but we don't eat them anyway

    but another interesting thing is the book buck discussion that will have daggers at dawn in my house
    I say book my husband says buck fo book
    and cook is cuck
    and i ask is look luke too??
    what about vehicle and veh-hickle.. bloody guards and what hell are GORDY as that bloody woman on the rté news says
    what the feck is wrong with people who can't speak properly
    it's all wrong *shakes head*:(


  • #88
    steel_spine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭steel_spine


    In Scotland it's pronounced 'Scon' and 'Scone' is for posh people. My Cork gf however, assures me that in Ireland it's the other way around.

    Also, why can't you get cheese scones anywhere in Ireland? I miss them :(


  • #89
    Axton Calm Potassium
    Posts: 0 ✭ Axton Calm Potassium


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    It's scone, the e isn't silent.

    Eh, yes it is.


  • #90
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Scone.


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  • #91
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    steel_spine wrote: »
    In Scotland it's pronounced 'Scon' and 'Scone' is for posh people. ...
    Of course it is, despite what mods would have you believe. :) Them posh people know what the score is. They can remember all the armies being bet into shape by Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson to fight perfidious Albion and all comers.


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