On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 00:19:21 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> wrote:

> 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:
> >>>
> >>>>>> If they wanted it to be pronounced scon by everyone, they should have
> >>>>>> left off the e.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> here you go - you blind men take a look at this elephant
> >>
> >> http://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.a..._with_gone.jpg
> >>
> >
> >
> > 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?

He's saying "tomato - tomahto". If you're in the UK - they'll still
know what you're talking about if you pronounce it one or the other.
Equate it with the state called Nevada (the correct way) and NeVAHda
(completely wrong).


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