It's not only posh people who pronounce 'scone' like 'phone' though. I'm from a working class family in South Wales and, while I'm prepared to believe that some other Welsh people pronounce it so that it rhymes with 'gone', I've only ever heard English people do that. I always thought the 'gone' version was the posh one.*
You don't say ice cream con, and you don't say stepping ston. Gone is pronounced as 'gon' but that word has no class (it's all gone). But a scone is full of it...get it right, guys. P.S. I'm from a working class family. Nobody I know in my area calls it a scon.
According to a study by Cambridge, though, it might be a regional thing. Rhyming "scone" with "gone" is apparently mostly done in Northern England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland (my area of Britain is bright blue!)
Don't tell me you also pronounce the h in archeology, the g in gnome, and the k in knickers?
no but listen right do you pronounce 'cone' as in ice cream cone as 'con'? cos the only difference between scone and cone is an 's' slapped on the front of it - why does that change the pronunciation of the ending part
no but listen right do you pronounce 'cone' as in ice cream cone as 'con'? cos the only difference between scone and cone is an 's' slapped on the front of it - why does that change the pronunciation of the ending part
Many words in the English language possess similar differences despite containing the same letters in the same order. For example, the 'one' in "gone" and "orgone" is pronounced differently - orgone is pronounced or-goan.
Many words in the English language possess similar differences despite containing the same letters in the same order. For example, the 'one' in "gone" and "orgone" is pronounced differently - orgone is pronounced or-goan.
that is... very true i've never heard someone say gone as in "gwon" though, or "goan" but I've heard both "sc-on" and "scoan" ... there's no straight answer as to why that is? it's just "say it the way you learned it"? is it to do with dialect? man English is such a weird language x_x
It really rather depends on who i'm with at the time, and how they pronounce it. Gets ever so confusing when talking with two people who pronounce it differently.
that is... very true i've never heard someone say gone as in "gwon" though, or "goan" but I've heard both "sc-on" and "scoan" ... there's no straight answer as to why that is? it's just "say it the way you learned it"? is it to do with dialect? man English is such a weird language x_x
English is a stupid language tbh Yeah it's just the way you learned I guess. Though, you could argue, that the Queen pronounces it "sc-on" and proper English is often called the "Queen's English" so
English is a stupid language tbh Yeah it's just the way you learned I guess. Though, you could argue, that the Queen pronounces it "sc-on" and proper English is often called the "Queen's English" so
It's very simple tho - no grammatical genders etc. so it's easy to learn... at least it was for 10 year old me lmao that's a bit of a stretch dontcha think but sure xD