Scone or Skon?

[darkforaster]

Note: to make it easier to understand, most words on this thread will be posted as how they sound. No I do not spell scone as skon.

 

 

 

Right, so me and my friend was arguing today about which is the right way of saying Scone. I said Scone, he said Skon.

 

 

 

His argument was that the northern part of england was where the first Englishmen originated from. So that because the northerners speak like that, the correect term is Skon.

 

 

 

However, i argued that he did not apply that way of speaking to words which are spelt similer - e.g Phone as phon, alone as alon, bone as bon etc. So Saying scone would be much more logical. i however, have no idea if that is actually how northerners say them. if they do, then that puts this whole argument on it's head.

 

 

 

i also stated that the spelling of scone means that it should be pronounced as scone because there is an e on the end.

 

 

 

Eventually we got the whole class debating. With the majority of the class saying scone. Yay I won! \ *Ahem*

 

 

 

So what do you say?

 

 

 

Do you say Scone or Skon?

 

 

 

If you say Skon, do you say Phon, bon etc?

 

 

 

Post your thoughts and comments.

[snarlin]

skon ?..what the hell,I've never heard anyone pronounce it that way. :lol:

 

 

 

so yes,i say scone and all that.

[pryomancer]

It's just regional pronounciation.

 

 

 

Like mother- mum, mam, mom etc

 

 

 

None are wrong, just different accents and idiolect.

[Barihawk]

Where I live we call them biscuits :P.

[Plugpoint]

It's pronounced 'cone', therefore it's pronounced 'scone'

 

You don't say to your ice cream man 'I'd like the chocolate CON please" do you? I mean, that's just silly, sounds like a sugar-coated scam! :P

 

 

 

Plugpoint92 :

[Brad25891]

You don't say to your ice cream man 'I'd like the chocolate CON please" do you? I mean, that's just silly, sounds like a sugar-coated scam! :P

 

 

That actually made me laugh... :)

 

 

 

Anyways, its all a matter of pronunciation some people say tomayto and some people say tomahto.

[Bloodredsword]

All your scone are belong to me!

 

 

 

 

 

I have heard people say skon though....tbh this is spam :XD:

[rushrock]

Scone...At least that's what New England says. :P

[1_man_army]

 

The scone is a British snack of Scottish origin. A small quickbread made of wheat, barley or oatmeal, usually with baking powder as a leavening agent. British scones are often lightly sweetened, but may also be savoury. In the U.S., scones are drier and larger, and typically sweet.

 

 

 

The pronunciation across the United Kingdom is varied. Some sections of the population (nearly two thirds of the British population and 99% of the Scottish population, according to one academic study) pronounce it as /skÃÆââ¬Â°Ã¢ââ‰â¢n/ (to rhyme with gone

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone_%28bread%29

 

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/su ... -icphs.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Since we made it, we should get to name it. Therefore it should be skon.

[ThruItAll]

I'm from the north and say Scone.

[Ragen]

I'm from the north and say Scone.

 

 

 

Same here. I had a scone after dinner today and wasn't that impressed. I think I may have overloaded it with butter as it was all soggy and icky.

[Brad25891]

Off topic -

 

TBH earlier i was in tesco(woot for cheapness) and actually really wanted some scones but i couldn't find them.

 

op -

 

you don't pronounce gone as gown, ye you don't pronounce phone as phon.. so who knows with one is right :S If someone actually finds the correct way to say it with a significant amount of evidence, they get a cookie! (E-cookie)

[Harrington]

There's actually a town called Scone near Perth in the UK. Dunno if it's got anything to do with this snack though. Maybe it was invented there lol.

 

 

 

Strangely, the locals pronounce it at "Scoon".

[Guest]

skon ?..what the hell,I've never heard anyone pronounce it that way. :lol:

 

 

 

 

Where I live we pronounce it skon.

[Intriguing]

Everyone that I know calls it skon, but I call it scone. :)

[Zonorhc]

It's skÃÆââ¬Â°Ã¢ââ‰â¢n, fools! IPA! Do you speak it!?

[Nabbagad]

skon ?..what the hell,I've never heard anyone pronounce it that way. :lol:

 

 

 

 

Where I live we pronounce it skon.

 

 

 

Yeah, in Australia we pronounce it as skon.

 

 

 

I didn't even know people pronounced it as scone.

[Led-Zeppelin]

What about the word gone? It throws your whole cone arguement on it's head. Pronounced gon. I say skon. Propper people tend to say scone.

[dsavi]

I thought this would go in the same category as that Little Bunny/Rabbit foo foo thread, i.e. spam?

[darkforaster]

I thought this would go in the same category as that Little Bunny/Rabbit foo foo thread, i.e. spam?

 

 

 

you might think so, But i wish to know if scone or skon is what most would pronounce the word. So it has a point.

 

 

 

On topic

 

 

 

yes gone is not pronounced gown. is it me, or is this english much more complicated than I first thought?

[deep_pain]

as mentioned before "gone" kind of throws the whole argument.

 

 

 

English is not a classical language and has few hard and fast rules on pronunciation.

 

 

 

there is no specific way to say every word that ends in one.

 

 

 

i say skon, I actually thought scone would be a northern thing rather than southern, I lived my life half and half north/south and if anything I find more northerners say scone than southerners.

 

 

 

If one is meant to be pronounced as you say, then why is own not one?

 

 

 

thrown not throne

 

 

 

a lot of words with simular spellings are pronounced different ways or a lot of words with different spellings are pronounced the same way.

 

 

 

our language is far too large to be limited by rules saying certain letter combinations must be pronounced the same way in all cases.

 

 

 

but yeah skon for me.. but I prefer muffins. or english mufffins as some may call them.

 

 

 

out of interest does anyone say eat in the past tense. (et)

 

 

 

who eat the food? rather than who ate.

[Plagueon]

Technically its pronounced 'skon' but I think that sounds stupid.

[nine naked men]

Who cares? Everyone knows damper is the bomb. 8-)

 

 

 

Anyways, I say skon.

[flowerboy]

No rules really apply to this, as the English language has so many exceptions.

 

 

 

I call them biscuits or bread by the way...

[Saru Inc]

I pronounce the following words the following ways:

 

 

 

 

 

Scone. (scone, duh. )

 

 

 

Tomayto. (tomato)

 

 

 

Pecahn. (pecan)