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Scoan v. sconne
Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-11-02 7:04 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2016-11-02 4:35 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>>>> If they wanted it to be pronounced scon by everyone, they should have
>>>>>> left off the e.
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>>>>> Yes, it should be gon from common usage ASAP.
>>>>
>>>> Exception to prove the rule. The fact is, people say scone because
>>>> that's how it's how it's spelled. Unfortunately that doesn't stop
>>>> people from saying datta.
>>>>
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>>> People say what? scone (like gone) or scone (like stone)? I can tell
>>> you that we had the fairly often when I was a kid. My mother baked them
>>> and both my grandmothers made them. My maternal grandmother was of
>>> mostly Irish and Scottish blood and my paternal grandmother was from the
>>> Nottinghamshire/Sheffield area of England. They all pronounced it
>>> rhyming with gone. Here we are years later and people who never grew
>>> up with nice freshly made scones(gone) are buying those super sweetened
>>> things in Starbucks and calling them scones (stones) because they don't
>>> know any better.
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>> here you go - you blind men take a look at this elephant
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>> http://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.a..._with_gone.jpg
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> My English born grandmother was from the Nottingham/Sheffield area
> which, according to that map, is where very few people same scone
> rhyming with gone, but that is not how she said it.
so what?
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