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Scone or Scon?!

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  • #92
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Scone

    Only wannabe posh people who think they are landed gentry say scon
    Friend of mine says scon. Everyone else I know says scone.


  • #93
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Scone. Warm, delcious, buttery scone.


  • #94
    darragh16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    Scone

    I mean you wouldn't really say 'ston' instead of stone...


  • #95
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    darragh16 wrote: »
    Scone

    I mean you wouldn't really say 'ston' instead of stone...

    And you wouldn't say 'gon' instead of 'gone'... OH WAIT...


  • #96
    Cormac2791
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Cormac2791


    SCONE!!!


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  • #97
    christ on a bike!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭christ on a bike!


    I haven't read the rest of the thread but ffs, mean ffs

    Cone

    Bone

    lone

    It's a fupping scone!!

    Nice with fresh cream and jam


  • #98
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    christ on a bike! wrote: »
    I haven't read the rest of the thread but ffs, mean ffs

    Cone

    Bone

    lone

    It's a fupping scone!!

    Nice with fresh cream and jam

    Like I pointed out two posts above yours... Gone?


  • #99
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Fishie wrote: »
    Like I pointed out two posts above yours... Gone?

    To throw a spanner in the works.. One :D


  • #100
    ElaElaElano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    Why did I spend the last 15 minutes reading this thread when I was already starving? Agony.


  • #101
    Hedman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Hedman


    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

    Don't let them get to ya, after all, sticks and stons may break your bons....


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  • #102
    Fart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    I'm getting some seriously crazy Deja Vu with this thread, even with the first few replies. :confused:


  • #103
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    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, 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.
    What?

    Do you think I got my pronunciation of the word from Wikipedia? I am Scottish, as were both my parents, and that's where I got it from. Wikipedia happens to be right on this occasion, which is why I mentioned it. For all I knew, you are one of those people you're moaning about, who think Wikipedia is a primary source of knowledge. I know I'm not one of them, but Wikipedia is fine for this kind of low-importance topic as a secondary source, with links to primary sources if you need them.

    This isn't rocket science. There is no debate here, just a lot of non-Scottish posters who are wrong about how to pronounce a Scottish word. It's not just here, there are a lot of people getting it wrong all across the world. I don't notice until the question comes up, but the OP asked, so there you have it. Let's make a deal: I don't get to tell you Irish folk how to pronounce póg mo thóin, and you don't get to tell me how to pronounce scone. OK? :rolleyes:

    PS: I'm putting out a contract on this guy. Any takers? :eek:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da9DP23yjgg

    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



  • #104
    Chorcai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


    My Grandmother would say "are you having a scon" but she baked "scones".


  • #105
    shebango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭shebango


    syklops wrote: »
    Its Scone. (pronounced skwun).

    It rhymes with one. I thought everyone knew that.


    Scone pronounced skwun?

    Really?:D

    It's fookin SCONE!! I feel like screaming at people that call it SCON!! Jaysis!


  • #106
    gleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭gleep


    Depends where you're from. I say scon because everyone in the North of the country does.

    Question for the Dubs reading this - Is it Tree or Three? :D


  • #107
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    gleep wrote: »
    Depends where you're from. I say scon because everyone in the North of the country does.

    Question for the Dubs reading this - Is it Tree or Three? :D
    Is what tree or three?


  • #108
    gleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭gleep


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Is what tree or three?


    I'll assume you're being sacrcastic, if not then God bless.


    If you were counting to 3, would you say "one, two, tree" or "one, two, three"?


  • #109
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Hedman wrote: »
    Don't let them get to ya, after all, sticks and stons may break your bons....

    Haha watch it! :P

    Nah I don't mind people who gently take the piss, but it's the ones who get angry about it that annoy me. "I feel like screaming at people who pronounce it a different way to me!" Er, maybe you should find more worthwhile causes to get angry about?


  • #110
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    steel_spine wrote: »
    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 :(

    Come over to my place, I'll bake you some cheese scons.

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


  • #111
    Din Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭Din Taylor


    My OH, who's from the North, rhymes it with gone. She's adamant that the posh English way to pronounce it is to rhyme it with cone. Bullsh1t IMO. I lived in England for six months as a youngster and all the poshos rhymed it with gone.


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  • #112
    Ann22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,005 ✭✭✭Ann22


    recylingbin wrote: »
    Scone rhymes with gone, you bunch of oiks.

    I laughed out loud at this:D

    Anyway I say 'scone', I hate 'scon'!!

    Do you see 'scallions', I know it's supposed to be 'scallion' but I say 'scullion', people who say 'scallion' make me mad...I'm irrational, I know. And why do Home-economics teachers all call 'potatoes', 'pidatoes' (???):confused:: Oh..and it's 'yo-ghurt' not 'yogg-hurt'!:mad:


  • #113
    xoxyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    Why don't you have a poll?
    Will they not let you because you can't prenounce the word "scone"?


  • #114
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Ann22 wrote: »
    Oh..and it's 'yo-ghurt' not 'yogg-hurt'!:mad:

    I learned first to say yaourt.


  • #115
    P.C.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭✭P.C.


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


    Do you say wallhey when you mean wallet?

    Do you say duvetté when you mean duvet?

    English is a funny language.
    The 'e' on the end of scone is silent.


  • #116
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    P.C. wrote: »
    Do you say wallhey when you mean wallet?

    Do you say duvetté when you mean duvet?

    English is a funny language.
    The 'e' on the end of scone is silent.

    When I mean wallet, I say wallet...
    And it doesn't exactly look like I'm alone on my thinking when it comes to pronouncing scone now, does it?!


  • #117
    Thomas828
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    "Scawns" come from your local bakery. If it's anything to do with Scotland then scone rhymes with bone.


  • #118
    starbelgrade
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    8 f*cking pages & it's still not decided?!?!?!


  • #119
    TaraLo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭TaraLo


    gleep wrote: »

    Question for the Dubs reading this - Is it Tree or Three? :D

    Nice :)

    and its scon :P


  • #120
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Novella wrote: »
    When I mean wallet, I say wallet...
    And it doesn't exactly look like I'm alone on my thinking when it comes to pronouncing scone now, does it?!

    Ah, correctness by consensus; that I like.

    I say wallett, but if I were American I'd call a fillet a fillay.


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  • #121
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    bnt wrote: »
    ... I don't get to tell you Irish folk how to pronounce póg mo thóin, and you don't get to tell me how to pronounce scone. OK? ...
    See you, Jimmy? I don't depend on any returned tattie hookers to tell me how to 'spikka de lingo'; we were 'spikka de lingo' long before we colonised Scotland for the first time. As far as I'm concerned ye can all póg mo scone! :)
    P.C. wrote: »
    ... The 'e' on the end of scone is silent.
    Exactly so, just like the 'p' in knickers.


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