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Scoan v. sconne
On 11/3/2016 1:49 AM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 00:19:21 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> > wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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).
>
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHKm0cm-jI
Graham
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