Scones, how do you pronounce it?

[BlindTom]

sconzz lykk mayt.

 

[CakeDragon]

I pronounce it "skon", like 'gone' but with a 'sc' on the front.

Urgh, now I'm hungry.

 

[bodyklok]

I pronounce it sc-own. Because then it sounds like own, which sounds like pwn. Which sounds awesome.

Also,

Spoiler: What's the fastest food in the world?

Scone!

Terrible, I know.

I chuckled.

 

[Cocal]

I pronounce it like it's spelt.

this.
skowns

 

[EeveeElectro]

Because then you get this joke.

Spoiler: What's the fastest food in the world?

Scone!

Terrible, I know.

LMFAO!!!!!!!
Hahaha, I need to get out more.


Anyway, I'm from up North, how do you think I pronounce it?

 

[Versago]

This is a largely British/Irish conversati
mmmmm, cookie (out of curiosity what do Brits call this?)

Cookies are usually called buscuits but when they look like the steriotypical picture above some bakeries do call them cookies and hence, thats what we order them as.

I'm English, North Yorkshire-ish, and i have to say that although to do say 'scon' i believe the dictionary says to pronounce it the other way.
That way it rhymes with similar words - allowing for a system.
E.g. Bones
Crones
Domes
Clones
Palindrones
ect.

Either way there is no right version - its just a lingual quirk; like an accent.
It just so happens that in the case of scone, the rarley used pronunciation is appearantly the origionally intended one.

I don't know if im the only one to find this ironic but there we go.

P.S. Loving this thread.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

S-cone, as in the word cone except with an -s- in front of it.

 

[Davey Woo]

Sk-own. I don't know why but I hate people that say it as scon.

 

[Lexodus]

I'm fairly well spoken and I always say scon. Thinking about it, I've never met anyone who calls them sc-owns, not without joking or trying to sound posh, anyway. To me rhyming it with stone sounds retarded.

Fix'd.

 

[Lexodus]

Palindrones

WTF?
Palindrome

 

[sokka14]

i pronounce everything like it's spelled.
therefore:
scone is "scown"
meringue is "meh-ring-goo"

i love that people say that, and yet they pronounce things like bath "barth".
stupid hypocrites.

 

[Lexodus]

I pronounce it like it's spelt.

Then what about monkey? Do you say mon? Or Mun?

 

[Fraught]

I say scone like stone. Should have made a poll.

A few have said this before, but I chose to quote the most straight forward of them all.
I pronounce it the same way, and Cpt_Oblivious, what ever they might tell you, I'm not one of those "weird people".

And it sounds stoopid

And saying "stoopid" instead of "stupid" doesn't sound stupid?

 

[JenXXXJen]

Scownes, and I'm northern. Sconne sounds like you're trying to be posh and failing, badly. And it sounds stoopid

 

[Golden Gryphon]

I rhyme it with stone but I am american. My english friends used to have a lot of fun getting me to pronounce different things. I have a tendency to slur my words meaning words like bobble, bauble, babble and even bible tend to sound the same. I also pronounce syrup and Europe as sirp and Eurp which cracks people up especially when I have to concentrate quite hard to pronounce them properly.

 

[Mr Sunday Night]

It's scone (as in rhyming with stone). Anyone who defies this is clearly a mind-terrorist and is not to be trusted.

 

[D.C.]

mmmmm, cookie (out of curiosity what do Brits call this?)

That there sir; is what we Brits also call a "Cookie"

OT: I say it S-cone

 

[Booze Zombie]

Then what about monkey? Do you say mon? Or Mun?

Sounds the same either way.

 

[El Poncho]

scon

 

[Lexodus]

Then what about monkey? Do you say mon? Or Mun?

Sounds the same either way.

Wow. That IS retarded. They don't.