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The ultimate question has at last been brought to Metanet! Do you correctly say scone, or do you instead go for the clearly wrong scone? Or are you just an oddball who pronounces it scone, or a nutter who claims that, despite all the evidence, it's actually scone?! You choose.

Rhymes with 'gone' unless I'm being ironic in which case it rhymes with 'bone'.

Hurr in 'Merica, it's lahk "bone."

I'm with maestro. Precisely.

Sc(b)one.

The *fuck*?

I could've sworn the global pronunciation came from the British (bone).

I've never heard of the last two options. Scun? Scoon?

Scone with bone. That's how everyone in Canadia says it.

I don't know why I put in the last two options, maybe I thought that every possible pronunciation should be included? Even though I've only ever seen one of those two used, and that was by some random oddball on another forum somewhere.

EDIT: Sc(b)one isn't really "British". In Scotland, where the word originates, it's generally pronounced sc(g)one, even though the place the food is named after is pronounced scone (rhymes with "boon"), another reason I included that option. Since my mother is Scottish, I've grown up being told that sc(g)one is right and that sc(b)one is heretical.

If it's pronounced scon, it's written wrong. Scone.

SlappyMcGee wrote:If it's pronounced scon, it's written wrong. Scone.

So how would you pronounce gone?

Mae wrote:

SlappyMcGee wrote:If it's pronounced scon, it's written wrong. Scone.

So how would you pronounce gone?

Nobody said 'gone' wasn't written wrong.

Hold on, everyone does pronounce gone (gawn) right? It rhymes with bone for me.

ToeFaceKiller wrote:Hold on, everyone does pronounce gone (gawn) right? It rhymes with bone for me.

No. I say 'goen'

i pronounce it like Antidisestablishmentarianism

the_happy_taco wrote:i pronounce it like Antidisestablishmentarianism

I want to punch you in all of your testicles.

Ampersand wrote:

the_happy_taco wrote:i pronounce it like Antidisestablishmentarianism

I want to punch you in all of your testicles.

Hold off, I want in! You take the left, I'll take the right. We can share what's left between us.

skōn

Scon

You see, cakes were escaping from prison, they've all scone the policeman said to the press.

Chase wrote:You see, cakes were escaping from prison, they've all scone the policeman said to the press.

Ba dum tsh.

u ppl take things to literally, you arent gonna get a medal if what you think is right

the_happy_taco wrote:u ppl take things to literally, you arent gonna get a medal if what you think is right

lol ya i do lol

Try explaining this then.

Wiki wrote:The pronunciation of the word across the United Kingdom varies. According to one academic study, nearly two thirds of the British population and 99% of the Scottish population pronounce it as /skɒn/, to rhyme with "con" and "John." The rest pronounce it /skəʊn/, to rhyme with "cone" and "Joan." British dictionaries usually show the "con" form as the preferred pronunciation, while recognizing that the "cone" form also exists.[1]

i never asked this before and probably should do it now...


........whats a scone

the_happy_taco wrote:i never asked this before and probably should do it now...


........whats a scone

ONLY THE MOST AWESOME WAY TO EAT BREAD EVER.
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Rhymes with bone. Man, now I want some scones. :\