definitive scon/scone pronounciation thread (1 Viewer)

[krystal]

right guys, the debate is over.

I was reading a biog of Elizabeth I earlier and in it is a mention of the Stone of Scone. WELL now, it's not the Stonn of Sconn now is it? It's the Stone of Scone. PROOF.

So scone wins, yay!

 

[classic seanc]

I copped out of the discussion on the other thread, but fuckit, yes!!

Scone, not scon.

 

[carbide]

WELL now, it's not the Stonn of Sconn now is it? It's the Stone of Scone. PROOF.

So scone wins, yay!

the placename's pronounced 'scoon', though.

 

[krystal]

ah shit.

 

[carbide]

ah shit.

sorry. it's still 'scone' for sure, though .

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

I pronounce it sconn especially on the rare occasions i'm motivated enough to bake my own.


S-C-O-N-E....Sconn.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Me [Catholic]: Scone

Mrs nlgbbbblth: [Church of Ireland]: Sconn

Lefty? - sconn.

 

[ICUH8N]

This thread should not be about linguistic quibbling (omg XTreme assonance alert)
It should be about deliciousness.

 

[Bellatrix]

 

[ICUH8N]

<3

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

omg XTreme assonance alert

you haven't started the couse yet, wordsworth.

 

[ICUH8N]

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Forgot to buy Bonne Mamon again.

 

[Bellatrix]

Never forget the Bonne Maman.

No Bonne Maman, no dice.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

all is changed, changed utterly

 

[joematic]

there also seems to be some sort of north/south divide over this. Being from the bog, I've always prounounced it 'scone'. Then I move to belfast and they tell me that the way posh people up here say it... and I should be using scon.
I would have thought scon was the posh way.

dialects eh! you couldn't be up to them....

 

[roxy]

you haven't started the couse yet

??

 

[Jim Daniels]

there also seems to be some sort of north/south divide over this. Being from the bog, I've always prounounced it 'scone'. Then I move to belfast and they tell me that the way posh people up here say it... and I should be using scon.
I would have thought scon was the posh way.

dialects eh! you couldn't be up to them....

This is true. It even extends to Leitrim. I have a mate there who reckons Scone is ultra posh. I grew up in Raheny/ Kilbarreck and there is no way we would have lived if we called then Scons.

I like them with blueberry jam and a cup of tea.
My Kilbarreck days are behind me I guess...

 

[therealjohnny]

 

[IFF]

Finally something useful researched

I rhyme it with cone. My mother and her family are from limerick so deep blue territory there while Louth is in the middle