Scones, how do you pronounce it?

[historybuff]

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.

Same here.

But I thought they used 'biscuits' where we use 'cookies'?

 

[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.

Same here.

But I thought they used 'biscuits' where we use 'cookies'?

Biscuits are NOT proper cookies. Proper cookies are soft while biscuits are hard.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Wow. That IS retarded. They don't.

I'm sure you're very intelligent as well, monkey.

 

[El Poncho]

I call them British Tea Muffins...but seriously, when baseball gets to England, I'm moving over there to open up a shop in the new stadium called "Going, Going, Scone!"

YEAH!!!!

Baseball will never come to england they have cricket

 

[Lexodus]

I call them British Tea Muffins...but seriously, when baseball gets to England, I'm moving over there to open up a shop in the new stadium called "Going, Going, Scone!"

YEAH!!!!

Baseball will never come to england they have cricket

Rounders. Cricket is completely different.

Wow. That IS retarded. They don't.

I'm sure you're very intelligent as well, monkey.

Don't doubt it, troll.

 

[Scythos]

There's no right answer it's all regional stop having a go at people yada yada yada.

You could do equally pointles threads for: bath, glass, grass, Primark and tomato to name a few.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Sc-Ons. Because that how it should be pronouced. Forget the magic E. It has no power here!

EDIT:

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

No. Cookie is very much a american word. Any true brit would call that a biscuit.

 

[MasterSqueak]

Sc-O-ne

 

[War Penguin]

I pronounce it like Sc-own.
However, I do find myself jokingly pronouncing it like Sc-oone.

 

[Spacewolf]

Sc-on the northern way although the number of times ive actally said it could be counted on 1 hand

 

[quiet_samurai]

SCWNED!!

 

[Catchy Slogan]

It's pronounced sc-owns, because scones has an E. If it didn't, then it would be pronounced sconns. I know someone who pronounces it sconn, but then again she also pronounces tongue, tungue.

 

[MrGFunk]

I pronounce it like it's spelt.

A lot of people are saying it rhymes with stone but it depends how it's pronounced it could rhyme with gone

I do an annoying thing, I say it one way and then immediately say the other. There was a time when I used to just say scone (gone). Bloody peer pressure.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Scone ryhms with stone, that's how I pronounce it.

 

[Zephirius]

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

QUICK! Contact the Thought Police. They'll be vaporized this time tomorrow.

I'd like to say I pronounce it scoon, just to mess with people, but really I pronounce it Sk-own. Blame American pop-culture.

 

[jackbriggs18]

Sc-owns

Ya, I pronounce them like they're spelled.

You wierd people you...

like english is that clear cut

 

[Agent Larkin]

Skones

 

[Pezzer]

Sc-Ons. Because that how it should be pronouced. Forget the magic E. It has no power here!

EDIT:

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

No. Cookie is very much a american word. Any true brit would call that a biscuit.

Many of us call large biscuits cookies however. The word cookie originated in America, what does this tell us?

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Skonn

Easier to pronounce.

 

[Abedeus]

Scone ryhms with stone, that's how I pronounce it.

Exactly. Same as Stones, but with a SC.

Skonn

Easier to pronounce.

So how do you pronounce "stones"? Stonns?