Scones; and prnounciation thereof.
1. It's sc-oh-ne, not sc-on.
2. That's sc-oh-ne, in a perfectly normal accent, right? Not a ridiculously stuck up and drawn out 'ooehhh'. Just a sort of 'oh' in the middle. If I knew the proper phonetic symbols, I'd use them, but as not, just take my word for it that it's perfectly possible to say sc-oh-ne without implying that your father owns a yacht and several summer homes.
3. Apparently, sc-on is the dead posh version, actually.
4. Look, it's a magic 'e', right? So a long vowel sound.
5. Bone. Tone. Scone.
...otherwise, how about we reinvent it with pronounciation as it looks: one with a 'sc' stuck on the front. So that would be 'scwan', ok?
Hardly anyone around me actually pronounces it with a long vowel. So clearly it's not even a local thing, it's just me. They all laugh at me, I am so oppressed. *sigh*
2. That's sc-oh-ne, in a perfectly normal accent, right? Not a ridiculously stuck up and drawn out 'ooehhh'. Just a sort of 'oh' in the middle. If I knew the proper phonetic symbols, I'd use them, but as not, just take my word for it that it's perfectly possible to say sc-oh-ne without implying that your father owns a yacht and several summer homes.
3. Apparently, sc-on is the dead posh version, actually.
4. Look, it's a magic 'e', right? So a long vowel sound.
5. Bone. Tone. Scone.
...otherwise, how about we reinvent it with pronounciation as it looks: one with a 'sc' stuck on the front. So that would be 'scwan', ok?
Hardly anyone around me actually pronounces it with a long vowel. So clearly it's not even a local thing, it's just me. They all laugh at me, I am so oppressed. *sigh*