my frend says it, i think its weird but how did different pronuciations start?
2006-09-20 06:29:39 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's the Scottish pronunciation.
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2006-09-20 06:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing weird about it! It's just a matter of regional dialect, the same applies to words like bath and glass, people in southern England tend to pronounce the words as though there was an R in them while people form the North tend to pronounce the flat sound of A.
It just depends where you come from and no one way is any more correct than the other.
2006-09-20 13:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by bumbleboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scones with a long 'o' seems to be a 'southern' thing as does having a bath with a long 'a'. My wife says it that way, whereas I (from the east midlands originally) use the clipped version. Strange though, I say grass with a short 'a', but a*se with a long 'a'.
2006-09-21 02:58:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably because of the accent. People know how to spell it and how to pronounce it correctly but the country and city accents are very different.
It also has something to do with how a person hears it at an early age and it get's passed down through the generation of families.
2006-09-20 13:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by The purple sock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As opposed to Scoanes, which I think is far too posh, I call them scons. There is a place in Scotland called Scone, (scoon). So shouldn't they be called Scoones.
2006-09-20 13:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by Princess415 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is because each language in the world is made up of sub languages called accents and dialects which change from whatever region you come from for example the Birmingham accent isn't the same as the Geordie accent, I had to study this as part of my HND.
2006-09-23 11:41:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in uk, its a northern and southern thing. North say scon and South say scone
2006-09-20 13:36:49 · answer #7 · answered by charlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on where you come from,but scones were always thought of being the posh way to pronounce it
2006-09-20 13:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by amber_xx66 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word is 'scone' to rhyme with 'gone' not 'scone' to rhyme with 'stone'.' The place in Scotland called 'Scone' to rhyme with 'spoon'.
All I know is that I rhyme scone with 'gone' and that this is the correct way. So there.
2006-09-20 14:36:38 · answer #9 · answered by keefer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm from Middlesbrough & I say SCON.....my wife is from Hull & she says SCONE
2006-09-21 07:35:35 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋