Scone or Scone?

[AyatollahPies]

Following on from the Mealtime naming thread, I pose the following question.

 

How do you pronounce Scone?

 

Is it S-Cone or S-Gon?

[Domino]

S-Gon

 

One with a SC in front of it...simple

 

like glass is 'ass' with a gl in front ;-)

[FN-GM]

S-Cone of course!

[Little-Miss]

Hmmm...i can never decide. I think it depends on company but i think i'd probably say S-Cone...

 

People laugh at me sometimes cus i say P-ARST when telling the time lol

[Gatt]

S-Cone of course!

 

Hmm.. I have a long standing arguement with Mrs Gatt over this

 

She says S-cone, I say S-Gon..

[elsiegee40]

Both... I moved around the country a lot when I was young and now use both variants!

[witch]

The laws of the English Language, such as they are, require that if two vowels are separated by a consonant, then the first one is sounded as in its name and not its sound.

Which makes S-CONE, not S-CON

Coincidently, that is how we say it in the home counties where I am from.

[BTCC_Fan]

I say it S-Cone.

 

I live in near Leeds and have done most of my life but parents are from Middlesbrough(though he lived in East Yorkshire for a while) and East Yorkshire. They both say it the same as me.

 

My girlfriend has lived in Leeds area all of her life and says S-Gon.

 

Now we are talking about scones, does anyone have one that I can eat?

[Iain.Faulkner]

It quite simply has to be s-gon, purely for this reason....

 

What's the fastest cake in the world?? S-gon! S-cone just doesn't work :-)

[tech_guy]

Yes, it's all very well talking about sconze, but what about bath - is it baf or barth?

[FN-GM]

Yes, it's all very well talking about sconze, but what about bath - is it baf or barth?

 

its a baf

[Arthur]

It's obviously S-CONE, because it rhymes with phone, stone, clone and drone.

[SYNACK]

s-gon here

[ConTheITGuy]

It's obviously S-CONE, because it rhymes with phone, stone, clone and drone.

and gone and shone?

[Advocate]

its s Cone before you eat it and s Gone when you have eaten it

[LiamH]

S-con here. But I am yorkshire born and bred and we tend to leave out letters from most words

[MK-2]

same as the dinner/lunch/tea thing for me.

s-gon for me and s-cone for my wife.

 

which annoys her greatly when she asks me to get her a s-cone and i refuse until she will say s-gon

[localzuk]

The laws of the English Language, such as they are, require that if two vowels are separated by a consonant, then the first one is sounded as in its name and not its sound.

Which makes S-CONE, not S-CON

Coincidently, that is how we say it in the home counties where I am from.

 

That fails to take into account the fact that the English language doesn't have laws and is an ever changing language full of exceptions and oddities.

 

So, I'll stick to saying Scon, and refuse to say scone.

[GREED]

Lets ask the queen, it is her language after all!

[localzuk]

Lets ask the queen, it is her language after all!

 

No it isn't? English predates the queen by quite some time...

[GREED]

you know what, never mind... it was a play on the saying...

[bladedanny]

It's s-cone here. (and should be everywhere else for that matter )

[Hightower]

It's obviously S-CONE, because it rhymes with phone, stone, clone and drone.

 

Valid argument....... so you must say luke at that book (luke as in look)

[localzuk]

Valid argument....... so you must say luke at that book (luke as in look)

 

Go to the Isle of Man and they do say that.

[korifugi]

Occasionally S-con here....

 

 

 

 

...but usually "Om Nyom Nyom - mooooooore!"