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leah666 | 18:47 Sun 13th Jun 2004 | Food & Drink
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y do ppl call scones 'scons' wen its obviosuly a scone cos u spell it like stone but u dont 'ston' do u??? but then they mention the weird thing about gone that u say 'gon' not gone or sumthing but they r scones!!!!!!! sorry who esle says them the normal way?? sonces i mean not 'scons'>???
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I say scones both ways. I call sweet scones, "scones" and savoury scones, "scons".
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mmm cunning........i like it i just hate wen ppl only say "scons" n then every one has amssive arguement about it!!! like my whole class had this massive discussion abotut wether water had a taste!!!!! we r lost!! but i think does have a taste! of water cos u say things tatse watery
Ha ha ha ha, had this argument with my Dad for years... apparently the Queen says 'skon' so that's good enough for me. Everyone has their own ideas i suppose. Like "Either" and "neither", they can both be pronounced differently..... But when it comes to the cruch, if it has jam and cream on it i am happy.....
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hahahaa so true but i think the queen shud start calling them scones i tink it sounds less posh if u say scone....ah well
Less posh?! leah666 let me tell you, I live in a tearoom and the only people who pronounce it with a /@U/ vowel sound (to rhyme with "bone") are the elderly, upper-class "I own a pony, several classic cars and a villa in Spain", hoighty-toighty, holier-than-thou, "I never go to the toilet" upperclass folk out for a drive in the countryside to mingle with the peasants, because that's what normal folk do, isn't it, what what? The other way with the /Q/ vowel sound (to rhyme with "gone") is how the unpretentious people say it.
I say scon according to my bible (OED), but I don't care how anybody else says it.
Right. When I was a kid, I would never dream of saying anything else but sconn, but since I've grown up, I say the opposite of whatever anyone else says just to annoy them!

I'm a tinker aren't I?

.... mmmmm ....... freshly baked sconns with home made raspberry jam topped with a generous dollop of clotted cream. Heaven ...... mmmmm.
MMmmmm, yummy... Molly - i'll be round to your house for tea tomorrow then.......
i say 'scon' which rhymes with 'gone' which is appropriate because they always are if they are near me for long (which also rhymes by the way...) ;)
gazzawazza - I thought I was a tinker??! arf arf........just for the record I say 'scone' as in 'cone'..
actually i always was of the opinion it is a north/south divide thing - up in Yorkshire they are sconns.
I'm in the north-west and I say 'scones' but there are a fair few up here who describe them as 'scons' which to me sounds incomplete! I guess it's what you're use to your family saying or something.
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i give up........i am not posh indiesinger.......u kno i wish i never metioned it
ha ha ask a question with no definitive answer and you'll always get a raging debate on here. "I say Potayto you say Potarto, you say Tomayto i say Tomarto, (potayto potarto tomayto tomarto, lets call the whole thing off!")
actually the answer is Nebraska
scone as in gone
They are normally all s'gone when they are stuck infront of my lot!!!!!!!!!1
They can't be pronounced scone because then that old Uncle joke wouldn't work: (when there's a scone in close proximity) Uncle: That cake's magic, I can make it disappear. Kid: Oh yeah, how? (Uncle shoves scone into mouth) Uncle: See - s'gone!
there are a million and one examples of peculiarities in the english language, we don't like rules, we just like to say things the way we like. take worcestershire for example

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