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How do you pronounce Scone?

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  • #32
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Scone.

    Poll should be public so I can block the others, you bizarre fools.


  • #33
    Jess16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


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

    Uh no, not necessarily. There are a lot of words that are spelled entirely differently to how they're pronounced. Things are rarely written phonetically.


  • #34
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


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

    I add the s in the middle.


  • #35
    Dayana Green Goon
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Dayana Green Goon


    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".

    Bit of a logic fail there. How do you pronounce the number one? 'woahn'? Or gone? 'gohn'? It's not as if English is a phonetic language.

    It always amuses me that 'Scon' is considered the posh pronounciation in Ireland. In England, it's the opposite.


  • #36
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I still get a little giggle when I think of a classmate who used to say in this thick bogger accent, "shkoo-aawns" (or at least that's the best approximation I can get to how he said it)

    dunno what's the proper pronunciation, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't it :p


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  • #37
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    bnt wrote: »
    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?
    Correctomundo.

    You can say skown if you like, but it's not how you pronounce the product that originated in Scotland. And if you were talking about Scone Palace, you'd say Scoon!

    "I could have sworn I put that sword somewhere, I'll need to use my knife to cut this knish instead."

    Tanks a million and goodnight!


  • #38
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    S-con.
    People who pronounce it s-cone smell of poo.


  • #39
    Pretty Polly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Pretty Polly


    I think it just depends what part of the country you are from. Its the same with the pronunciation of the words cook and book.


  • #40
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Gordon wrote: »
    Correctomundo.

    You can say skown if you like, but it's not how you pronounce the product that originated in Scotland. And if you were talking about Scone Palace, you'd say Scoon!

    "I could have sworn I put that sword somewhere, I'll need to use my knife to cut this knish instead."

    Tanks a million and goodnight!

    Congrats on your forthcoming wedding :)


  • #41
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    s-cone, s-con is usually from boggers who say "sh" instead of "s" , and pronounce meat as mate, or tea as tae, shudder.


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  • #42
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Skown is how the English say it, so it's probably been from their influence that the word is pronounced incorrectly in Ireland now.


  • #43
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,707 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Being from de northside I'm contractually obliged to call it a Skooow-wen


  • #44
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,977 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Scone. I sure would like one now.


  • #45
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Scone, as in gone or one.


    Anyone who pronounces it any other way should be shot in the head, the posh cúnts.


  • #46
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    ?!

    ..

    's gone. :/


  • #47
    Kadent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 149 ✭✭Kadent


    like stone and with raspberry jam and cream


  • #48
    Broads.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Broads.ie


    I never even knew there are people that pronounce it "scon".

    Which county is this from?


  • #49
    M cebee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    if im in a italian restaurant i call it a burles-con-e:)


  • #50
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,356 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Scone as in "Hell hath no fury like a woman"...


  • #51
    Tayla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Tayla


    brummytom wrote: »
    Scone, as in gone or one.


    Anyone who pronounces it any other way should be shot in the head, the posh cúnts.

    But gone and one aren't pronounced the same :confused:

    If you pronounce it like gone then you're saying scon which makes you the posh cúnt and if you pronounce it like one then you're saying scun :confused:


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  • #52
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Tayla wrote: »
    But gone and one aren't pronounced the same :confused:

    They are...


  • #53
    gk5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭gk5000


    S-con and it's not posh. S-cone is so D4 to me... though I have to use it to be understood often.

    First heard S-cone when my bitch of a sister went to Dublin


  • #54
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Broads.ie wrote: »
    I never even knew there are people that pronounce it "scon".

    Which county is this from?
    Look at a map of Scotland and pick any one you like.

    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



  • #55
    Tayla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Tayla


    brummytom wrote: »
    They are...

    How are they pronounced the same?


  • #56
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Why is the mayo/culchie option of Sch-kone up there???


  • #57
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    stimpson wrote: »
    Being from de northside I'm contractually obliged to call it a Skooow-wen

    It doesn't matter, you won't be able to afford one after the VAT increase...


  • #58
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    S-cone.
    Scon is for posh people who also partake in the occasional crumpet.


  • #59
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    brummytom wrote: »
    Scone, as in gone or one.


    Anyone who pronounces it any other way should be shot in the head, the posh cúnts.
    In middle-class North Dublin parlance, gone is pronounced as "gohn" as in John, and one is pronounced as "wun" as in "won," so you're just confusing the matters further.

    If IPA could be taught in schools it would make the matter so much easier :(

    But aye, quite apart from the "scown/s-cone" version being more correct from a technical point of view, it's far from being a posh pronunciation on these sides of the waters.


  • #60
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    Azureus wrote: »
    S-cone.
    Scon is for posh people who also partake in the occasional crumpet.
    Even though it's scon with a fada I've always found S-cone to be the poshest sounding word in the English language. I've always said scon.


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  • #61
    professore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭professore


    Aaaah the reason I keep coming back to Boards are because of threads like this.

    Only Scots have any right to say Scon. The only person here that I know that says Scon also says "rest-ura" for restaurant in a pseudo-French accent.

    Case closed.


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