An age old question...

Started by Rich Boy Rob October 22nd, 2010 12:56 PM
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Cone or Gone?

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I say Scone like gone. Scone like cone sounds kinda posh. To me anyway. But maybe I'm just a common Northern lad. xD
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I pronounce them like "Scoones", because I have this weird disorder that causes me to see one "o" as two. :shocked:

But no, I say scones like "Skohn-s". I guess it's easier just to say scones as in like "cones"...... :o
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I say it as "cone" and I quite honestly haven't heard of that other way of saying it. Not that I even hear scones talked about that often anyway, but...

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I've always said it so it rhymes with "gone" because that's the way my parents say it. Although everyone else around me always told me I was totally wrong and that I'm stupid for pronouncing it incorrectly proves that only snobs pronounce it so it rhymes with "cone". I think it's something that varies by region, but I do know for a fact that the original pronunciation was the one that rhymes with "gone".

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It definitely rhymes with cone here in Minnesota~
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It definitely rhymes with cone here in Minnesota~
I can vouch for this completely. Though I can't say the same for transplants (people who moved here from elsewhere and aren't from here, and therefore don't have our accent).
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