Poll: The age old question

[lRookiel]

Scone or Scone?

but really, what does everyone think, this must be sorted, NOW!

Edit: UN FRICKIN BELIEVABLE. Damnit escapist you are hungry today!

Fine I'll just have to improvise.

Do you think its Scone (As in Sc own) or Scone (as in Sconn)?

 

[FamoFunk]

I pronounce it: scOWNS

It actually a word I *never* use, I don't like them.

 

[Mau95]

I dont even know what they are.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Sc own.

As in cone, with an 's' in front of it.

 

[VeneratedWulfen93]

Sc own indefinetly. As an Englishmen the rest of the world seems to think I walk through cobbled streets with my top hat and monicle and pop into the apothecary for some ointments that soothe all ails and I'll be damned if I don't live up to this stereotype.

Good day to sir. I must now depart for tea at Lord Percivilles estate, I hear he just got one of those new fangled motorvehicles. How quaint.

 

[lettucethesallad]

Sc-owns. My friends call them sconnes and it irritates me to no end.

 

[Truly-A-Lie]

Scone as in gone. Can't stand the elongation of the word that comes from the forced nature of pronouncing it "scOWNs". It seems to be slow-motion in the middle of a regular speed conversation.

 

[quetzal231]

Are there really people who think its pronounced "Sconn"? I had never heard it refered to as such before now, took me quite by suprise. Needless to say, I pronounce it as "sc own" and I am fairly certain that is correct. Being swedish I will grant that I might be wrong on that last point.

 

[Phishfood]

They are the fastest cake in the world - "sconn"

 

[Crazy Zaul]

If your posh its sCONE
If your a normal person its SCONe

 

[Thaluikhain]

skohnz

Though, this is one of those things over which people get worked up about. The government and the economy are all very well and good, but if you want people up in arms, get a bunch of them to pronounce something different to you.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

They are the fastest cake in the world - "sconn"

Ninja'd.

Sc-own was always the posh, silver spoon way of pronouncing it when I grew up.

EDIT -

If your posh its sCONE
If your a normal person its SCONe

Double ninja'd! Damn and blast!

 

[Phlakes]

...I didn't know anyone didn't pronounce it "scown". Huh. Well it's "scown".

 

[Shymer]

According to Wikipedia (suspect) - there has been academic research into the different pronounciation - concluding that 2/3 of Britons say "Sconn", rising to 99% in Scotland and this is also the most common form encountered in Australia and Canada. This is also the pronounciation used in the BBC pronounciation guide.

However that leaves plenty of people pronouncing it "Scoan".

I think any attempt to link this to a "posh" and "common" pronounciation is probably misleading. It's more regional than that - and probably only gathers a class overtone because of people's attitudes to different regional accents.