Scone or Scone?

[Landslide]

As I tuck into my delicious breakfast of cheese scones, I am suddenly gripped by a terrible fear!


Whilst I'm perfectly secure in my pronunciation of it, how do the denizens of Cycle Chat pronounce the word "scone"?

 

[Archie_tect]

Definitely 'scone'.

 

[Panter]

No, definately "skon"

 

[Mark_Robson]

Everyone knows that it's pronounced scon.

 

[User482]

It's a five-letter word with an "e" on the end. So it's prounounced like "drone" rather than "gone".

There is a third option - isn't there a town in Scotland called Scone? I think it's pronounced "skoon".

 

[guitarpete247]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall from the River cottage pronounced it SKONN the other night. So did the other cooks on the show. That's how we say it up north. It's only the southern softies who have SCOWNES. They also have coal delivered in SEX and have a man in to cut the GRARSE. And why do they also insist in having BA-AH on the SCOWNES.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall from the River cottage pronounced it SKONN the other night. So did the other cooks on the show. That's how we say it up north. It's only the southern softies who have SCOWNES...

Leicester!! - oop north??

 

[zimzum42]

Isn't it wonderful the English has no hard and fast rules for pronunciation...

Speaking of which, how do you pronounce pronunciation? With 'nun' or 'noun' in the middle?

 

[ramses]

sc-oh-ne Most Definitely

 

[guitarpete247]

Leicester!! - oop north??

I'm from Doncaster. I know some think that's the midlands.

 

[Mark_Robson]

Anyone south of the Tees is a cockney.....aren't they?

 

[Wigsie]

Anyone south of the Tees is a cockney.....aren't they?

I thought anyone north of the M4 was a thieving scouse b*stard!

 

[ventoux50]

so what do you call the long hard white things under your skin that stop you being a jelly ?

oh yes B o n e s

bones = scones

I rest my case.

never seen a skeleton made of 'bonns' have you ?

 

[ianrauk]

sc-oh-ne

 

[Panter]

so what do you call the long hard white things under your skin that stop you being a jelly ?

oh yes B o n e s

bones = scones

I rest my case.

never seen a skeleton made of 'bonns' have you ?

You're completely missing the point.

There are countless other words in the English language that should be pronnounced in a certain way, but just aren't.

Scone (skon) is one such word